Originally Posted by
Thrust Augmentation
No aviator or engineer (as will be obvious...), but the discussions on the trajectory of the errant blade & the differences between static testing & real world blade loss are quite interesting.
I think the main issue is that the blade (due to being weakened by the fatigue crack) started to bend and rotate forward and did not break away clean to an explosion, like during the test. How many degrees it rotated forward before failing is something that needs to be analysed and might mean we need to rethink containment requirements.