Originally Posted by
bradpaul
There has been much discussion in these forums about RC aircraft and near misses with commercial airliners and questioning of how much damage could a 60 sized RC airplane cause to an airliner. For this poll let’s consider an airliner at approach speed on final about 7 miles out at 2500ft. A typical, 60 size airplane at approximately 4 lbs. is ingested in one of the turbofan engines. Would there be:
A: No damage
B: Minor damage not causing a loss of power
C: Major damage causing loss of power and/or possible engine shut down.
Brad
I voted there will be major damage causing loss of power and/or possible shut down. But actually I'd like to comment further and say that a 60 sized airplane would be ripped to shreds if it went through a turbofan. I don't see how it could survive. The .60 sized engine would not only shut down, it would be damaged beyond repair. I certainly wouldn't buy it even if someone did repair it ... No matter how much JB Weld was used to glue it together!!
Nor would I buy the servos, or the plane! All the glue used to repair the plane would make it too heavy to fly again ... even with a .90 engine.