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Old 25th Mar 2007, 20:47
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Brings up the question concerning GE's desire to water down the blade-off tests for the GEnx.

Current requirements are that blade-off tests are done from the root of the blade, GE wants to certify their engines using a detonation further up the blade. This incident shows that current practice works just fine, so why compromise?
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