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Seeing if one or two of you guys could give me a little help here.

As part of my Physics A-Level I'm doing a presentation on Titanium. An interesting point I want to focus on is it's use in engine fan blades etc, and I can remember seeing videos in the past of things such as frozen chickens being launched into the spinning jet engines. It'd be something interesting/entertaining to add to the presentation. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find videos such as these, or provide any links?

Many thanks in advance.

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Well, the DC-10 crash I described was a direct result of a failing titanium fan-blade. It had a 13mm crack that caused the blade to be unable to take the forces of engine rotation and gave out, thus ripping all hydraulic cables

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The DC-10 crash at Soiux City was caused by a failure of the fan disc not a fan blade. The aircraft would have survived a single bade failure as the fan case is designed to contain a blade seperation. In that particular accident the whole disc burst and ALL the fan blades came out! Not nice.

Rgds Cking

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Sorry Cking, i Know this is the reason but I was just focusing on BBC Londons coverage on the new LHR terminal when I typed, ive got a poor memory

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No worries mate

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I can remember seeing videos in the past of things such as frozen chickens being launched into the spinning jet engines.

Just a small factual point here.

The chickens would not have been frozen at the point they were launched at the engine.

This is the basis of an amusing (and possibly true) story, about a windscreen company desperately building ever stronger windshields to try and pass the chicken test for certification, until finally being told that the standard required a chicken, not a frozen solid chicken.

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I don't know if this is what you want Wannabe-Pilot as you need to register and i've not registered for it http://tinyurl.com/dzfha

Hope it helps you out

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Airband1, many thanks for that link. Although it appears that you have to be a news journalist to access the videos, so it may not work :(

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A380 Engine testing

Dan,

A few months ago on C4 there was a programme about the A380.

It was called 'World's Biggest Airliner - Building the A380'

(Saturday, 28 May 2005, 7pm)

[URL=http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/B/buildingthebest/prog.htm]U…]

They had quite a lot about the engine testing, I expect most people on here remember it if they saw it. The website has no info. on the production company that made it - but I expect with some research you could get hold of them and ask if they could give you some more info. or perhaps some video clips or something you could use in your presentation. It depends of course on how much you need it!

I'm doubtful but everything's worth a try.

I hope that helps you in some way :)

Joe