Plane finds hail

[Turbine]

and Hail wins.......
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/f.braaksma/

[Rekd]

Gawd I hate flying. I'd have been a rek on that plane.

I went off the cliff at the airport on Catalina Island in a plane when I was in high school.

'Rekd teh flying ain't so bad, it's the landings

[cncman]

Holy COW!

[Turbine]

Do we have a "Rotating Parts Engineer" here?
I wonder if hailstones like that damage the engines, or if it is just like throwing ice cubes in a blender. I would think vanes and blades are all shot. But on the other hand, the compressor will do a good job of grinding up just about anything that enters I would think.
Birds get swallowed up with no ill effects.

[Rekd]

I'm no engine ear, but I know that those engines are very VERY stout. They'll run stuff thru there you wouldn't believe and still run with barely a hickup. They're kind of redundant in nature so a bit of damage won't make it inoperable. You'd have to almost completely destroy 50% or more of the turbine to kill it.

I have a video clip of a guy getting sucked THRU a jet engine on an aircraft carrier, and got spit out the back side almost scratch free. Amazing the way it just sucked him in and spit him out.

'Rekd

[CNCadmin]

Mixed drinks anyone?

[Rekd]

I'll have one without feathers please

'Rekd teh Inebriated

[JIMMY]

I have seen that vidio of that guy getting sucked through the engine. That was incredible.

[Mr.Ed]

I have read somewhere that they shoot chickens through the front window and running turbine engines to test reliability.

The ultimate grinder for minced meat.

Mostly when a jetfighter has to make an emergency landing is not when a bird flies into the turbine, but more when one goes through the front window. At those speeds one can get very badly injured.

Ed.

[ToyMaker]

There is an old story about the US Air Force using a steam canon to shoot chickens at jet windscreens for testing. According to the story the testing facility was run by a certain Colonel by the name of (what else?) Sanders. LOL

robotic regards,

Tom
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The Crime of Punishment
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[Rekd]

Originally posted by ToyMaker There is an old story about the US Air Force using a steam canon to shoot chickens at jet windscreens for testing. According to the story the testing facility was run by a certain Colonel by the name of (what else?) Sanders. LOL robotic regards, Tom = = = = = The Crime of Punishment - - by Dr. Karl Menninger

It's not just a 'story'. I've seen the videos. Gruesome, but kinda kewl too.

How 'bout the 'real' cadavers they used to use for crash test dummies?

'Rekd

I need new underwear and sets in this plane; it must have sounded like hell in that plane.

My buddy owns a small 4-setter warrior 2. We got caught in a little rainstorm and it sounded like the plane was going to come apart. Manage that tin can.