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HunterICX
05-12-09, 04:46 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picE8ZvknpA

:rotfl:

HunterICX
jumpy
05-12-09, 05:11 AM
can you say 'suction'? :D
SteamWake
05-12-09, 07:43 AM
FOD

(really big FOD) :rotfl:
sharkbit
05-12-09, 08:20 AM
Must be kinda common:

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa265/DASH7_2007/Picture1.jpg
Task Force
05-12-09, 09:09 AM
This is your capitan speaking... we are going to have a delay today. A baggage cart is in one of are engines...

lol
Jimbuna
05-12-09, 10:55 AM
I'm afraid that for reasons too embarrassing to announce there will be no catering facilities on your flight with us today.
Dowly
05-12-09, 01:13 PM
Haha! :haha:
Raptor1
05-12-09, 01:15 PM
Boeing's experiments with unconventional fuel sources have been...less than successful...
Sailor Steve
05-12-09, 01:28 PM
That really sucks.
longam
05-12-09, 01:55 PM
No we know what happened to all the chicken
SteamWake
05-12-09, 02:10 PM
Ive seen super slow motion films of explosives being detonated inside of one of those things. There supposed to be uhhh explosion resistant. But from the inside out.

Somewhere on live leak Ill see if I can find it.
Platapus
05-12-09, 05:45 PM
Luke AFB, 1983. Flightline Airman got a little close to the F-16 intake while the aircraft was "almost" at idle.

We had to ship the engine registered as Human remains until it got to Hill AFB for "separation".:nope:

19 year old kid and the family does not even have a body to bury. :nope:

Jet engines suck... if you are in front of them.

If you are behind them, they just blow.

:D
bookworm_020
05-12-09, 10:51 PM
Adds new meaning to excess baggage! :o
SteamWake
05-13-09, 09:03 AM
Luke AFB, 1983. Flightline Airman got a little close to the F-16 intake while the aircraft was "almost" at idle.

We had to ship the engine registered as Human remains until it got to Hill AFB for "separation".:nope:

19 year old kid and the family does not even have a body to bury. :nope:

Jet engines suck... if you are in front of them.

If you are behind them, they just blow.

:D

Oh someone post that video of a 747 blowing a truck off the tarmac !
Spike88
05-13-09, 09:58 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK03nnIKfNY&NR=1 Here's another video of the same thing.

Just with sound and from a different Prospective.

Good thing it was only a baggage cart and not an actual person.
geetrue
05-13-09, 03:02 PM
I wonder what that would do to a human :hmmm:
Jimbuna
05-13-09, 03:17 PM
:dead:

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3695/careerbuilderdotcomadmi.jpg (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=careerbuilderdotcomadmi.jpg)
Sailor Steve
05-13-09, 03:31 PM
Not always:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxcSY1AwrM
Schroeder
05-13-09, 05:15 PM
@SS

How could he possibly have survived that? There are this blades in a jet engine that are compressing the air. He should have been chopped to pieces by them.:o
Dowly
05-13-09, 05:19 PM
@SS

How could he possibly have survived that? There are this blades in a jet engine that are compressing the air. He should have been chopped to pieces by them.:o

Here's a vid with a press conference with the guy who was sucked in, alive and kicking, abit battered but alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3Iz7b95-8
Platapus
05-13-09, 05:25 PM
I believe that guy was sucked into but not through the A6 engine. His clothing may have gone through, but I seriously doubt any human can go through the compressor assembly and survive.
Arclight
05-13-09, 05:28 PM
Some people are just lucky, I guess.

Maybe when he hit the first set, some blades were knocked loose and tore the engine apart before he... well...

Looks like he was holding something, his arm stretched out... maybe that caused it to desintegrate.

*According to that video Dowly posted, the guy got stuck in the intake and his helmet got sucked further in, wrecking the engine.
Spike88
05-13-09, 10:38 PM
So when objects enter the engines, do they automatically shut down? Or does the pilot still have to turn off the fuel, etc. going to that engine?
Jimbuna
05-14-09, 05:14 AM
I suspect the pilot has to do it.

What a lucky escape :o
sharkbit
05-14-09, 04:22 PM
So when objects enter the engines, do they automatically shut down? Or does the pilot still have to turn off the fuel, etc. going to that engine?

Depends on how much damage it does to the blades. A small screw or bolt might go through, damaging some of the blades, and until power is increased, the pilot might not even know anything happened. When power is increased though, the engine might "compressor stall"-airflow is disrupted in the engine and it will make some pretty loud bangs, depending on the severity, which may cause damage as well if severe enough.

One of the airplanes I work on had a bird go partially into one engine and the crew never knew it until they got back and we saw the remains on the inlet lip and fan blades. Thankfully, there was no damage to the engine.
:)
Task Force
05-14-09, 04:24 PM
Yea, that guy was lucky he didnt get sucked in to that engine.:yep:
SteamWake
05-14-09, 05:31 PM
True story.

A friend of mine whom served in Vietnam (no not John Kerry) as a flight line monkey. They would get really bored in the back area without much to do

So they would tape nuts and bolts into the engine intakes. They would stay there untill the turbines would wind up and kerakattaclang bang.

Now they had something to do :rotfl:

Did I mention he was nuts? :doh:

As to the video I think the vectoring blades (stationiary blades that 'guide' air into the turbines) saved his life. That and the fact he went in head first and was wearing a helmit.