To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
That is why they call it testing...
2 posted on
11/17/2010 5:03:51 PM PST by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Make it out of forged steel.
3 posted on
11/17/2010 5:04:04 PM PST by
Paladin2
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
If this is the bulkhead between the pilot and the VTO&L engine they have a problem. My understanding was that titanium was used to protect the pilot if that engine blew up. It may be that they use aluminum on the other two (non VTO&L) models and left that bulkhead titanium on the vertical model. That would not necessarily be a problem except for the cracks. Guess they didn’t design it well enough.
10 posted on
11/17/2010 5:20:29 PM PST by
70times7
(Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Alcoa had a program on this forging process in a TV show it looked like 30+year old technology.
11 posted on
11/17/2010 5:25:01 PM PST by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
They are using Aluminum? Is that wise?
Isn’t aluminum a fire hazard?
17 posted on
11/17/2010 8:12:11 PM PST by
Pikachu_Dad
(Impeach Sen Quinn)
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