Simviation Forum - BIRD STRIKE

Reply #15 - Nov 2^nd, 2005 at 10:07am

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Tell me about it. Wink

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Reply #16 - Nov 2^nd, 2005 at 4:26pm

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BIRDSTRIKES!

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Reply #17 - Nov 3^rd, 2005 at 12:14am

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splatter!

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Reply #18 - Nov 3^rd, 2005 at 3:05am

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Anyone think of the poor birdies.... Cry

JUST KIDDING!
SMASH 'EM ALL

Interesting side note, in my aerospace class, we had a guest speaker talking about gliders and he said one time he was flying in a thermal with a Turkey Vuluture (big bird) flying just above him, and suddenly, for no apparent reason, the bird dove straight into the wing of the glider and blasted a hole right through it. The bird obviously died, and the glider barely made it back I guess. Tongue

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Reply #19 - Nov 4^th, 2005 at 8:09pm

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What the hell does "T 6 NL" mean?(first warning) I thought all military engines had to be rated for bird strikes.

Well, "T" is temperature, "6" presumably be be Stage 6 of the engine, "N" is shaft rotation speed, "L" is Low Pressure (as in low pressure compressor).

T6NL probably is a warning about the temperature in stage 6 and the speed at which the low pressure compressor is turning.

As for being rated for bird strikes, smaller engines have a harder time dealing with birds than larger ones. Take the tests of the 777 engines almost everyone has seen for example, those massive blades decimate birds of any size and can keep on going but small engines don't dice birds up, they have to grind them. That is going to cause a lot of damage any way you look at it. An example of this could be throwing a cabbage into a lawnmower's blades and then comparing that to throwing one into those of a blender, it's much harder for the blender to make that cabbage into sauerkraut than it is for the lawnmower.

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