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To: blu

There’s no ring to catch anything. If those compressor blades or turbine blades go, but especially the compressor blades, the force will send them flying out.

As another poster said, don’t sit beside the engines.


89 posted on 04/17/2018 2:32:15 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf
"There’s no ring to catch anything."

WRONG!

There is a heavy ballistic Kevlar band, at least on the RR engines, deliberately meant to stop a "blade out" incident, around the outside of the blade housing.

Rolls Royce had film of a blade out test, because the gear box was directly under the turbine rings. The test meant to try to get a handle on reducing the amount of damage to the box. It was interesting to watch everything go sideways, suddenly, even in slo-mo.

223 posted on 04/18/2018 12:30:32 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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