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Old 6th Nov 2006, 00:24
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For all the reasons pointed out above +

A solid shaft typically has much less fatigue life due to poor metallurgical properties at its innermost fibres (casting/forging lapses). This is also why the engine compressor and turbine disks do not have solid shapes all the way to their center point.
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