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Video Surfaces of Russian Bomber Exploding on Takeoff
Russian TV ^

Posted on 01/21/2016 5:51:18 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Horrific video clip at link of Russian Tu-95 exploding on takeoff. Seems to be fire/explosion starting on left wing. Seconds later, entire a/c involved. Then left main gear apparently collapses. All crew dead.

(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...


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To: PLMerite

As my husband says.....if its mechanical it CAN fail


61 posted on 01/22/2016 4:46:07 AM PST by Josa
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To: AFreeBird
"Turboprops have rods?"

Figuratively speaking. Compressor blade(s), gears, shafts, things moving at high speed that suddenly change direction.

Kuznetsov NK-12: All kinds of bits and pieces to go astray.

62 posted on 01/22/2016 4:56:46 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite

I know, but you said “rods”.


63 posted on 01/22/2016 5:31:58 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

It’s a figure of speech. Haven’t you heard someone refer to a heart attack as “throwing a rod” ? :)


64 posted on 01/22/2016 6:18:00 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: ozzymandus

Russians are no one’s Buddy—they do not have friends—they have interests. The Russian Goals have been around since the days of the Tsars— Like warm water ports, Crush Turkey, keep their empire together, earn respect.


65 posted on 01/22/2016 6:45:35 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: PLMerite

Lots and lots of stuff on that front power divider to come apart.


66 posted on 01/22/2016 6:53:07 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: PLMerite

When a turbine wheel/disk fails, it’s supposed to be contained within the engine. Often it is not.

When the disk pieces fly outside the engine casing, it’s a 100 pieces of hot shrapnel going everywhere, especially, as in this case, into fuel tanks.


67 posted on 01/22/2016 7:47:48 AM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz; PLMerite
"...When a turbine wheel/disk fails, it’s supposed to be contained within the engine. Often it is not..."

There is a REASON they have that funny red stripe painted on the outside of the engine area on many military planes...:) I suspect you don't see it as much any more because you don't have as many turbine failures as there used to be back in the day...

68 posted on 01/22/2016 12:53:29 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

Atsa rog!


69 posted on 01/22/2016 1:07:37 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

Heh, I remember when, as a trainee, I was told about that. I have a vivid imagination, so...I paid attention to that one. In retrospect, the only time I was even near that kind of thing was when a guy got sucked into a Tomcat. He lived, because the pilot saw it and instantly shut the engine off, but the guy’s tools went through the compressor section.

I had a chance to look at the engine while it sat there waiting to be sent off the ship, and that compressor was ugly, and there were some holes where the tools went out the side of the engine casing.


70 posted on 01/22/2016 1:23:45 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: cassiusking

We practice and maintain plans on attacking just about everyone, including allies. It’s what war-planning is all about.


71 posted on 01/22/2016 1:43:34 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: rlmorel

In Nam, the way the Huey mechanics would clean the turbine blades was to spin up the engine and then throw in a bushel basket of walnut husks.

Clean as a whistle.


72 posted on 01/22/2016 3:50:06 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

That’s great!


73 posted on 01/22/2016 3:55:05 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

One night, some young Spec-4 let go of the bushel basket and it was sucked in too.

Little smoke out the hot ens of the turbine for a few moments, otherwise, no problem.

:)


74 posted on 01/22/2016 6:23:13 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

I can just imagine the scene...

“Holy crap! Did you see that!”

“What do we do?”

“I didn’t see anything...”


75 posted on 01/22/2016 6:26:43 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Teacher317

We dont buzz Russian coastlines and warships. Russia is out of control.


76 posted on 01/23/2016 8:46:07 AM PST by cassiusking
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