Originally Posted by brooksjg
Looks like someone at New Scientist has caught the Bureaucratic Disease causing mental 'tunnel vision'. Ex Cathedra view on testing engines: 'destructive testing across a range of them will be incredibly expensive'.
Paul is a smart man and I am quite sure he is aware of what it would take to get accurate experimental data on damage to engines from volcanic ash, especially since he did talk to the people who make and sell them. I think he is right that it would be "incredibly expensive". I imagine the manufacturers said that as well.
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