Originally Posted by
f16man
So an 8 pound bird [ meat and hollow thin bones] and say a 8 pound bag of plastic ,metal ,lipos, servos ect. would do the same damage to the compressor blades ?
There would not be much difference. The metal would nick and cut the blades, but most blades are broken from impact of mass and velocity and the hardness would not matter for that. And the engines will run with near full capacity with nicked blades, but would require replacement.