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Old 10th Nov 2012, 07:13
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DaveReidUK
 
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Where aerial agriculture is concerned, bird strikes are a common (almost daily) occurrence. These include ingestion into Garret Turbine powered machines which rarely result in any power loss, much less, engine failures.
Unless there is a new generation of turbofan-powered agricultural aircraft that I'm not aware of, I assume you're talking about the TPE331 turboprop that powers many ag aircraft such as the Thrush. Ditto the PT6 on the turbine Air Tractors, etc.

In that case, I'd suggest that once a bird has been through the propeller, the chances of these being any sizeable bits left to be ingested by the engine itself are low.
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