Originally Posted by
MechEngr
I found that 14 aircraft windshields cracked on one day's departures from Denver, attributed to winds driving small grit into windows and particularly low temps. Feb 2007 for the curious. The first was an Airbus A319-100.
er... you aren't involved in PPG sales I hope!
That is an impressive cluster. I would think that thermal shock was more a problem, not clear how grit that isn't high velocity boulder (Colorado) size... what failure mode would that be. PPG would be pleased though.