SWA ENGINE FAILURE!

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wilbur1 said:
Stupid Pidgeon, i told you no more turbines, you will just hurt yourself. seriously, my father worked for psa and gd he would see damage way beyond this just from a finch or or dove. If the impellors decide that a mass will be solid then that mass will act like a solid......especialy at 80,000 rpm. no matter whats in its way, steel, aluminum, titanium,or unobtanium. Check the testing, they could drive a 1 pound pidgeon through concrete.
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You make this stuff up as you go or just delusional? :rolleyes:
 
What i was saying is that when it hits that blade it is instantly propelled to speed, usiing the pidgeon as a metaphor. my dad use to test the turbines for Solar and they would throw all sorts of things in them. He told me a guy once left a wrench in the test cell and it was picked up at full throttle and punctured the blast plate. ( what was left of the wrench, the only way they could identify what it was, was by the stamping of the manufacturer) completey destroyed everything in the cell, even the frame that held the eng.
 
Thanks Matt. You should come over and try my sisters turkey, they have a new rockwell just for it......ckr5000000000000.89995. They are looking at for a new source of depleted Uranium:shock:
 
By the way Matt iam not being crass i'm sorry if i sounded rude, i dont mean to be. my typing is terrible i know, i just a dumb mechanic.
 
I think what is being said is that as the bird goes in the air is spinning it really fast. When objects are spun really fast at ultra high revolutions some of the normal laws of physics go a bit crazy and therefore a bird at that speed does a lot more damage than it normally would because it is going faster than normal. It is like the principle of take a 1 cent coin or a 5 cent cent Australian up to the top of a building like the Empire State Building and it will accelerate to have enough force to kill a pedestrian when it hits the pavement below. That is my understanding of how it works- correct me if I am wrong please...
 
HealzDevo said:
It is like the principle of take a 1 cent coin or a 5 cent cent Australian up to the top of a building like the Empire State Building and it will accelerate to have enough force to kill a pedestrian when it hits the pavement below. That is my understanding of how it works- correct me if I am wrong please...
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Disproved on a Mythbusters episode Healz. Terminal velocity of the coin is limited such that even from a 'great' height the injury inflicted by the coin is merely superficial.
 
could have been pice of space rock
 
Okay, I missed that episode of Mythbusters. I didn't know they busted that myth. I always thought it was real physics.
Healz.
 
I have a question.............. Aren't the engine are design to stop forgein object going through it?

(for me in this case it seem that damage had been done out side)
 
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