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On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:04:54 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
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On 4/17/2018 7:37 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:04:22 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
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What's up with all these jet engines exploding or disintegrating in flight?

Seems like there's a report of a failure about every month.

Reminds me of a visit I made to the Pratt & Whitney jet engine plant
in West Palm Beach years ago. I was given a tour of the facility
and in one room a group of people were sitting at tables inspecting
turbine blades used in the engines. The Pratt engineer
I was with explained that they were all blind and inspected the turbine
blades for imperfections by feel. He said their sense of "feel" was
greatly enhanced due to their loss of sight.

You have to wonder if they are ingesting small birds or other foreign
objects that ding up a blade without breaking it and then it goes
later. They said they just inspected that plane recently for bad
turbine blades.

Could be. The foreign objects could be small rocks or debris on the
runways. Airports are so busy now-a-days I wonder about the general
maintenance runways get.

If you watched 60 Minutes Sunday it makes you wonder how much
maintenance anything gets.
It is amazing what people will skimp on to save a few bucks.

Now you've done it. You've shamed me into changing the oil and
filters in my generator. I'm going to slide it out of its
compartment right now to serve as a reminder. Hey, that's a
start!
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