Posted on 07/15/2025 9:20:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
This is obvious CCP BS! China will never be the first at anything big because some other county, usually the U.S., has to creat it in order for China to steal the plans and try to copy it. Even then it’s always a poor copy. So stop posting this China garbage.
The best wonks went civilian and blew up Wall Street.
Translation: it took China 10 years to steal this technology from the US.
Big deal, I recall reading articles in the Aviation Week magazine about cooled single crystal superalloy turbine blades in P&W and GE military jet engines more than 3 decades ago.
It’s my understanding the limiting factor in gas turbine engines is the first-stage turbine blades themselves, not the disks they attach to.
The limiting factor is the air......................
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