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turbinetree

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10. Yepper spot on................

Mon Feb 22, 2021, 11:17 PM

Feb 2021

When they do line checks inspections on those fan blades during a fan blade lube they perform that blade inspection eddy current and dye penetrant inspection of those blades, most people do not know that the blades are balanced across from each other in pairs and at all the times they are numbered so that you don't have the blades being placed willy nilly back on the fan blade tree hub since there are 18 blades on that hub disk

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Regulators probe engine blow-outs as older Boeing 777s suspended [View all] turbinetree Feb 2021 OP

Fan blade failure DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #1

Haven't. Still part of UTC...actually RTC with the Raytheon merger. paleotn Feb 2021 #6

Ok, thanks DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #7

Metal fatigue bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #2

The engine is hot and spins at tremendous speed DeminPennswoods Feb 2021 #8

talk about aging infrastructure RussBLib Feb 2021 #3

Has anyone talked about a bird or a drone strike being responsible for the engine failure? Joe Nation Feb 2021 #4

Some people at Airliners.net were speculating on that possibility early on... regnaD kciN Feb 2021 #5

Thanks Joe Nation Feb 2021 #11

Lost two blades. James48 Feb 2021 #9

Yepper spot on................ turbinetree Feb 2021 #10