Posted on 03/31/2011 4:55:15 AM PDT by nuconvert
Ten sailors were injured yesterday when a jet fighter's engine exploded as it prepared to take off from an aircraft carrier.
The F/A-18C Hornet was starting a training exercise when the accident occurred on the flight deck of the USS John C. Stennis, in waters off California. Four sailors were flown to Naval Medical Center San Diego where they were in stable condition.
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Obama’s fault!
I was a jet engine mechanic on these birds for six years. Either someone skipped a chapter in the maintenance manual or a wet start.
Why do we have to hear about this from the Brits?
Don’t we have American journalist anymore? Oh, you say that they are more interested in what Michelle is wearing! OK that must be the case.
Wet start?
Too much fuel in the chamber?
Wet Start?
Sounds like FOD.
Why do we have to hear about this from the Brits?
My first thought as well.
Could it be the dreaded, American newspapers, are not interested in their articles appearing anywhere but in their own print or on their own web site? Or IOW oblivion.
Or somebody left that maintenance manual lying in the intake.
The best source of actual news in this country come from the Brits and from Canada.
Our press is too busy campaigning for the marxist kenyan.
This Airmen had the great privilege of spending some time on the Stennis while it was in the Persian Gulf, circa 2000.
I have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in the Navy and pray they all recover.
TSgt
Excessive fuel. Can result from letting it spin too long before ignition. Fuel pools up under the combustion section. When it finally lights off, it can do some pretty serious damage to the turbine sections.
Doubtful. That would have caused issues, for certain, but every rookie plane captain checks the intakes before the engines are spun up. It gets drilled into you...
Brits still run things (key strategy & policy for re-arranging the world). Same goes for France. The US does what it does & has always done the best ---> provide military support to Brits, the French & the rest of the old European colonialists.
I wondered the same thing when I didn’t see it posted on FR
Disk or blade failure can be caused by materials and design failures, too.
Obviously a maniacal flock of radiation weary seagulls flung themselves as a suicidal death-orgy into the whirling turbine fins of victory, seeking revenge against man for the Fukushima assault upon their environment. ......Or maybe just a wet start.
It is hard to spin a F18 engine failure as a the One miracle.
Turbine blade root failure is normally caused by something else though. I’m betting a wet start causing combustion can failure and/or HPT revving over limit causing failure back through the LPT.
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