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Old 24th Dec 2018, 00:18
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NWA SLF
 
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Sorry for what may be a stupid question. I am a mechanical engineer so my EE skills went by eons ago in college and I have only worked with DC circuits on mobile equipment but the electrical grid has tens of thousands of generators powering it, all synced to the same frequency. In the old days they used primitive means to sync but putting a generator on line out of phase can negate the power so they must be synced. Is this not possible on an airplane?
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