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To: TheBattman

By their own testing standards, a catastrophic failure like this is practically impossible. When they test, the place explosives on fan blades, spin them up to 100% and then blast them free from the shaft. That’s how they test the integrity of the engine and the nacelle.

Crazy.


13 posted on 11/11/2010 2:07:58 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE
By their own testing standards, a catastrophic failure like this is practically impossible. When they test, the place explosives on fan blades, spin them up to 100% and then blast them free from the shaft. That’s how they test the integrity of the engine and the nacelle.

Shouldn't shrapnel be 100% contained according to today's standards?

19 posted on 11/11/2010 2:15:30 PM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average.)
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