"Pearson Hurst" (phurst)
12/20/2017 at 15:27 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Pearson Hurst" (phurst)
12/20/2017 at 15:27 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 5
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Earlier this year I came into some various aircraft gauges and
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for some advice on what to do with them. Besides an altimeter currently sitting on my desk as a conversation piece, I still haven’t gotten around to doing anything cool with them. Now another bit of aircraft has come to me and is currently on my desk for me to fidget with.
This is a titanium turbine compressor blade taken out of a Pratt & Whitney F-100 jet engine. This one specifically was taken out of an F-16 after some slight impact damage to the compressor blades.
My office is full of random stuff like this. I should start charging my co-workers admission :)
benjrblant
> Pearson Hurst
12/20/2017 at 15:59 |
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woo! that’s cool as hell! are you taking orders?
Textured Soy Protein
> Pearson Hurst
12/20/2017 at 16:06 |
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You have the alien alloys! Quick, someone call the FBI and DoD!
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Pearson Hurst
> benjrblant
12/20/2017 at 16:11 |
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I know specifically where mine came from, but they’re surprisingly cheap on eBay if you wanted one.
DasWauto
> Pearson Hurst
12/20/2017 at 16:40 |
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Nifty. I’ve got a washer from a C-17 main landing gear hanging around somewhere. It’s ~3” O.D. and around 1/2” thick and was scrapped for being worn more than 0.010”, iirc.
user314
> Pearson Hurst
12/20/2017 at 18:49 |
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That’s always one of my favorite HIM segments.