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Old 11th Dec 2010, 19:04
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dixi188
 
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A certain CFI (I think) at BA flying club, High Wycombe, who was also F/O on concorde, showed me some photographs of an engine that had eaten a piece of intake ramp.
I think he said that the adjacent engine had surged and a piece of ramp went out the front and down the other engine. This resulted in a double engine failure mid atlantic. They landed in Shannon with very little fuel left.

A double engine change ensued.

Question, how fast was the ramp going if the A/C was at Mach 2?
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