On Jan 16, 4:51*am, Jimw wrote:
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OK, looking at the engines they showed on tv, I immediately thought
***Why dont they put some sort of screening over the engine***
It would only seem like a couple hundred dollars worth of hardware
cloth would solve the problem. *Why dont they think of simple
solutions like this? *
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Actually, if it was Nightline you watched (I did, too, at least that
section) they later had an (I think NTSB(?) ) engineer on who brought
up precisely the problems that prevent the simple solution--namely
airflow restriction and obstruction. Also showed some of the
ingestion testing clips...

This subject gets aired every time there's a significant incident of
course; the news media simply has a conveniently short recollection of
what bandwagon they were on a couple of years or so ago. At least
around here it was a big deal after an incident in Omaha w/ a FedEx
(iirc) flight that had to abort after takeoff.

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