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Old 06-18-2012, 05:13 PM
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Default RE: I Have a New Respect for Turbine Engines

It was uncontained I believe. Here is the #1 engine.

Beave


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bevar,

That's an interesting picture they way the debris are laying in the mixer. Looks like a classic contained failure. In the industrical turbine world they refer to it as ''shelling out'' the turbine.

Greg
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