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To: Red Badger

Why can’t jet planes put some kind of
a mesh screen over the intakes?


12 posted on 01/27/2025 8:17:25 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
Imagine a bird hitting that mesh at 4-6 hundred miles an hour.

it would definitely make the chunks smaller, but same mass.

13 posted on 01/27/2025 8:20:54 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

It would get sucked in and that would be the end of that.............


15 posted on 01/27/2025 8:22:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Airflow for one.

Sedond the mesh would be destroyed by a hit and also go into the engine.


38 posted on 01/27/2025 9:38:11 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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