Made me think of that guy who got sucked into the intake while on that aircraft carrier, yet "walked" away.
Life... what a trip. -- there are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: >> Gel wrote: >> Dude...how much the f*** things do you do??? >> > > eh, I get involved in stuff. I used to work for an airline and they > run the simulator: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwa/sets/72157605946514949/ > > BTW, here's a great shot of the turbine blades: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwa/2947990309/ > > There's a great saying in powerplant engineering: suck, squeeze, bang, > blow, that's what makes the airplane go. > > And those engines REALLY suck. All it would take is to get anything > even near them at full takeoff power and you'll suck it right through. > > Then what happens is some metal breaks off and it's like a fork in a > blender and you get an uncontained engine failure. They're lucky fan > blades didn't rip the a/c apart. > > Here's an example of how hard you can hit one of these birds: > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > WARNING - GRAPHIC BIRD DEATH > ------------------------------------------------------------- > http://pages.videotron.com/bjoly/pages/bird.html > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285239 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
