Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
I remember a wonderful contraption consisting of ropes and wooden blocks being used on the TriStar spare engine pod to stop the RB211's fan windmilling in flight, so clearly prolonged rotation of a dead engine was considered an issue.
On the subject of which, I understand to prevent windmilling on the ground on a Tri-Star one day a rubber chock was inserted.
This solution worked quite well until, alas, the ground run was required. The mighty 211 had no problem shredding the chock.
One engine change later....