That’s what happens when a bird hits a jet engine — in this case a chicken and a wide-body engine.
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That’s what happens when a bird hits a jet engine — in this case a chicken and a wide-body engine.
Link via Bad Astronomy.
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It is important to observe, by the way, that the cowling entirely contained the failure. No high-speed shrapnel escaped to shred the fusilage, exactly as intended.
Incidently, I just learned that my company did a computer simulation for Airbus of what happens when you set down an A320 on water — 8 years ago. Airbus was very happy with the results, and didn’t need to make any substantial changes, as was proven last month. This engineering fad is getting to be pretty effective!
I reached for the web for a size comparison between the old jets and the new high-bypass engines, for some clarity on why it is so much more significant to take a bird strike now – the web failed me.
The effective comparison escapes, so I’ll muddle; imagine the difference between the headgripping tiny cloth drivers cap, and the mariachi sombrero.
In both cases spinning at phenomenal speed, with attendant gyroscopic actions, except one is eight times farther across than the other.
I realize I know NOTHING about aero-dynamics, but couldn’t they cover the opening with some sort of chicken wire thing that wouldn’t stop the air intake, but would stop bird intake? It could be removable for maintenance, of course.