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.
Posted on 01/21/2016 5:51:18 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz
As my husband says.....if its mechanical it CAN fail
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.
I know, but you said “rods”.
It’s a figure of speech. Haven’t you heard someone refer to a heart attack as “throwing a rod” ? :)
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.
Lots and lots of stuff on that front power divider to come apart.
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.
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...
Atsa rog!
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.
We practice and maintain plans on attacking just about everyone, including allies. It’s what war-planning is all about.
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.
That’s great!
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.
:)
I can just imagine the scene...
“Holy crap! Did you see that!”
“What do we do?”
“I didn’t see anything...”
We dont buzz Russian coastlines and warships. Russia is out of control.
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