[TheForge] What the hell?OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

If one considers how many of those giant , complex, lumbering, fuel 
sucking behemoths wallows skyward every day without incident...
I'm near incredulous that many more of them don't fall out of the sky.

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Sure, one bird, new engine with no fatigue. The AWACS 
> in 95 sucked numerous birds into each engine all it 
> really needs to do is shut them down on takeoff to down 
> the plane.
> 
> What happened yesterday is still speculation, they 
> haven't even recovered the engines as yet. Passenger 
> sitting on the left side saw a fireball and pieces.
> 
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
> 
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
> 
> 
> From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
> 
> 
> 
>> Standard test of passenger engines is that it has to 
>> ingest a 20 or 25#
>> frozen bird without disrupting operation, or at least 
>> it was years ago.
>>  I've seen the high speed footage of such tests.  It 
>> appears almost
>> unreal to see the fan slicing the frozen bird into 
>> perfect segments.
>>
>> I've seen similar tests using a 1" bolt dropped into 
>> the fan from above.
>>   If it remains outboard and passes through the 
>> bypass duct, the engine
>> can continue to function.  Inboard is a very 
>> different story, however,
>> as it gets into the actual power unit.
>>
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