"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
12/04/2014 at 10:49 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
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The testing that goes into certifying the engines that power these aircraft—the engineering marvels that can send a 600,000-pound Boeing 777 over 500 mph—are no less extreme. The engines are designed to suck in air, but they have to be capable of taking on everything else they may encounter in the sky, most notably birds and bad weather. To ensure that's the case, manufacturers run tests that are as straightforward as they are awesome: They turn on the jets and start throwing things in there.
There is a very interesting article that was published on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! back in November regarding jet engine testing. It is complete with awesome gifs of GE engines ingesting massive quantities of water and ice.
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The article focuses on GE and their testing, but ironically has an awesome picture of a Pratt & Whitney engine on a test stand as the lead image.
youshiftem
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
12/04/2014 at 10:54 |
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Immediately what I thought of.
Mercedes Streeter
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
12/04/2014 at 11:14 |
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They turn on the jets and start throwing things in there.
I'm pretty sure they have standards of what gets thrown into an engine, but my imagination pictures me tossing in Xbones, R/C cars, some frozen pizza, metal smartphones... :D
HammerheadFistpunch
> Mercedes Streeter
12/04/2014 at 11:23 |
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will it turbine?