From a story I've heard from Rolls Royce engineers when testing, it's worse if the chicken is still frozen.
EDIT: - did it really take me 10 minutes to post that?
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Aero engine bird strike, how scary?
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Posted 8 months ago #
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Woody2000, what the hell is that??
Wasn't it from a twilightzone episode?Posted 8 months ago # -
From a story I've heard from Rolls Royce engineers when testing, it's worse if the chicken is still frozen.
Have you seen the video?
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If you look, some helicopters use a 'dust guard' to prevent significant blade erosion on the engine. This wouldn't work for fixed wing aircraft due to the forward airspeed/what bristolbiker said. However, it would stop chicken ingestion. @13thfloormonk, i think it's from a steven king film, where the 'gremlin' is breaking up the engine/wing! I still look out for them...
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Yep, Twilight Zone movie.
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I work at rr. we have a chicken farm in nottingham for testing supplies.
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Considering Aero engine designers have figured out how to hold the turbine blades at temperatures far in excess of the melting temperature of the metal and figured out how to initiate combustion when the speed of flame propagation is lower than the velocity of the air passing it, I think if chicken wire over the front was a viable solution it might have been employed before now... Loosing one engine (as long as it is a contained engine failure, there is a chance it could become un-contained but that is a different kettle of fish) isn't such an issue as you have the other to land with (search for ETOPS.)
Iain
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Durham Tees Airport was originally RAF Goosepool. Not a promising name if your trying to avoid bird strikes.
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On the Hudson river documentary they said you can't stop stuff getting in to the engine. Chicken wire etc would disturb the air flow in to the engine causing vibration and loss of efficiency.
They also said that the large turbine blades are designed to fail and not blow then engine apart. I'm sure they said that eventually everything gets sucked into the internal bit of the engine which is only cm's in diameter and its at that point where the catastrophic failure occurs and there is no way round it.
The technology is going in to removing birds from airports, not changing the engine
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