Anonymous ID: a8ed77 April 17, 2018, 5:35 p.m. No.1083361   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3435

>>1083186

 

The damage is consistent with an uncontained fan blade failure. At altitude, N1 was likely in the 4600-4800 rpm range. Those wide chord Titanium blades are still pretty heavy. Say a 2000-2500 gram piece liberated at the blade root. Shit load of energy to tear up the cowl. Even a 200 gram piece of blade debris could easily penetrate the window. It's not ballistic glass.

Anonymous ID: a8ed77 April 17, 2018, 5:44 p.m. No.1083480   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>1083435

 

Yup. I've seen a ceramic turbine disk embedded a few inches into a steel thrust frame. We had several inches of ballistic glass in a view window and realized it wouldn't stop shit. Installed CCTV cameras to get the operators out of the planes of rotations.

Anonymous ID: a8ed77 April 17, 2018, 5:50 p.m. No.1083540   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>1083447

 

There are often single/multiple foreign military tankers in the air over CONUS. Not particularly unusual. I watched a couple over the weekend trailing AF2. Well, similar flight paths and half a continent behindโ€ฆ