> Gel wrote: > Dude...how much the f*** things do you do??? > eh, I get involved in stuff. I used to work for an airline and they run the simulator:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwa/sets/72157605946514949/ BTW, here's a great shot of the turbine blades: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nwa/2947990309/ There's a great saying in powerplant engineering: suck, squeeze, bang, blow, that's what makes the airplane go. And those engines REALLY suck. All it would take is to get anything even near them at full takeoff power and you'll suck it right through. Then what happens is some metal breaks off and it's like a fork in a blender and you get an uncontained engine failure. They're lucky fan blades didn't rip the a/c apart. Here's an example of how hard you can hit one of these birds: ------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING - GRAPHIC BIRD DEATH ------------------------------------------------------------- http://pages.videotron.com/bjoly/pages/bird.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285221 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
