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Old 21st Apr 2018, 21:31
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tdracer
 
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Wound down sure. Absent a shaft brake or lock, what does windmilling do in such a circumstance?
The windmilling vibration loads are still tremendous - the FAA has made Boeing show that the rest of the aircraft can readily handle the blade out vibrations for an extended ETOPS diversion - it wasn't trivial.
One story was that after a blade out event on a 747, the aircraft vibrations were so severe the crew had difficulty reading the flight deck gauges (one variation of the story - perhaps antidotal - was that there was a Boeing exec on the flight - after the flight he promptly asked engineering to go make sure the aircraft could handle that level of vibration..)
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