Originally Posted by
DaveJ75
In which case - please can you elaborate?
The F135 engine has a pretty substantial set of stators before the first compressor stage, so it might not be inconceivable for a folded blank to not fully disrupt proceedings until higher power settings?
Agreed - if the whole thing was being done in Real-Time slow motion.
In REALITY - the thing would have been shredded on Idle - and reported in EICAS.
I think its time to withdraw from a Blanking Plug Theory - it just doesn't sit with the scant evidence so far.
Something more structural happened but, at the same time, something specific to the Pre-Takeoff, etc, etc, that won't necessarily necessitate the grounding of the whole program for gad's sake . . .