Rolls Royce engines
Posted: 13 Jul 2010, 17:09This is on my PVR. the week before it was a nuclear submarine and this week as some of the things Quinetic does for the MOD.
An excellent (too short) series from the BBC !
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Posted: 13 Jul 2010, 17:09Re: Rolls Royce engines
Posted: 13 Jul 2010, 17:47Re: Rolls Royce engines
Posted: 13 Jul 2010, 17:53A really interesting programme (and series). The exploding fan blade test was something else - as was the maintenance bit. Someone, somewhere, knows all about YOUR engine.
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Posted: 13 Jul 2010, 19:54The exploding fan blade test was good - but I was very disappointed they didn't show it in super slow motion - they almost certainly had footage of it, probably in thousand frames /second - now that would have been good.
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Posted: 13 Jul 2010, 23:01http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA
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and for bird-v-engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OS2pwr ... re=related
Might not be for the squeamish.
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and for bird-v-engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OS2pwr ... re=related
Might not be for the squeamish.
Re: Rolls Royce engines
Posted: 13 Jul 2010, 23:09Darren Wheeler wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA
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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about
- why didn't they show similar footage in the BBC programme!Re: Rolls Royce engines
Posted: 14 Jul 2010, 08:05you'll probably find RR didn't want the world to see in detail how the engine responded to the exploding blade. Great show though
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Posted: 14 Jul 2010, 08:10hat wrote:you'll probably find RR didn't want the world to see in detail how the engine responded to the exploding blade. Great show though
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ff_1278286927&p=1