Granted, the LM-2500 is a modified aircraft engine, but the the afterburner function is supposed to be disabled. Ouch.
Posted on 05/21/2011 4:28:32 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
Skipper Westbook is having an interesting day.
Via Tim Colton's blog,
The future USS Spruance, (DDG 111), recently returned from sea trials, sustained extensive damage yesterday when the engine controls failed during a test and poured fuel into a hot engine.
Not an easy business. Seems like everyone is OK though.
Good new is - you can't buy training like this!
I think we could have a caption contest on this. Mmmm. OK, this is the image that the CHENG saw as he looked up from his crackberry while heading to the ship. The CHENG said, ......
Hat tip Byron.UPDATE: From a couple of people in the know, I think we have the two ends of the spectrum WRT what effect this will have on the ship.
1. From the good end: It will just clean the living h311 out of the turbines like what my dad did when he "cleaned out the carbon" of our 1973 Cadillac's 472/7.7L when heading down I-10 at about 90mph with me laying down on the flat area under the rear winshield.
2. From the "no one killed" bad end: Spaces possibly involved in a fire of that size; besides the turbine module and the adjacent equipment in the after engine room (#1): CCS has an adjacent bulkhead to the intake uptake space (both go through a plenum that extends from the main deck up through to the 0-2 level where the intake ends and the uptake goes just about to the top of that stack); engineering log room; mess decks (after bulkhead); Medical is close by, forward and to starboard. A bunch of offices to port and forward of the plenum. Aft CHT and pump room (5th deck). The engine room (from the size of the fire, hot yellow flames that far above the source of the fire is not good) could have extensive damage to it.
Granted, the LM-2500 is a modified aircraft engine, but the the afterburner function is supposed to be disabled. Ouch.
boson’s pipe, followed by this;
“The smoking lamp is now lit in all spaces.”
Relative of yours?
...something not printable on FR.
Nothing like being at sea and hearing the GQ for a main space fire.
The Cheng said “ The new afterburner is awesome, 100 kts here we come”.
or
“Keptain, the engines they will not take it”.
You get promoted to Commander??
:^)
No comment.
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