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Old 27th July 2007 | 03:39
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ahramin
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A turbine jet engine always has by its very nature the ability to destroy itself. Whether or not this can be done from the flight deck by bending the power levers over the front depends on what controls the aircraft manufacturer has put in place to prevent this from happening.

Case in point our company had a turbine engine in Africa on a natural gas pipeline (used to "pump" the gas down the pipeline). The pipeline sprung a leak and the engine was sucking in some of this gas so it started to run faster, which pumped more gas out as the leak was just downstream. It just kept going until it (very quickly) self destructed due overspeed.

It doesn't matter what an engine is rated for, if you put more fuel in, it will produce more power, until it breaks.
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