Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
An f-14 Tomcat is not an airliner engine, and not a fan jet. Airliners are rated to injest 5 KG birds and continue running. The fan helps as it tends to send the bird parts out away from the compressor inlet. Yes a missing blade can cause a large amount of damage, but it usually takes something larger than that. That is not saying it would never happen, only unlikely.
I am well aware of the fact that the F-14's engine is not the same as the present day jetliner engines. My point is that the pen only has to damage one blade in the front fan to destroy an engine. With a .91 bypass ratio, only half the air went through the compressors