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Old 1st Oct 2015, 21:15
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Originally Posted by DirtyProp
Am I the only one that finds the above part quite disturbing?
Way back when, during flight testing of the 767/CF6-80C2, we did a fairly high speed simulated RTO with full reverse thrust. At the time they hadn't yet finalized the reverse flow and there was significant reverse flow impingement on the fuselage. During the RTO, I could see daylight past the seals around the emergency exit door . It also got rather noisy...
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