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Airline pressing charges after passenger throws coins into plane engine for 'good luck'
Fox News ^ | February 26, 2019 | Janine Puhak

Posted on 02/26/2019 9:32:20 AM PST by LucyT

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“No; at the velocity air enters a jet engine intake a screen resembles a solid metal plate not just in pure cross-section reduction, but the turbulence around the cross-wires would be enormously disruptive. Probably produce at least a 35% power reduction if not more = unacceptable.”


I bet you also know the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow . . .


61 posted on 02/27/2019 9:43:14 AM PST by freedomlover
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He’ll get luck all right . . . all bad!


62 posted on 02/27/2019 11:41:39 AM PST by freedomlover
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