Re: Ariane 5 failure

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@IRVINE.COM> writes:
> >    There is, in fact, a Mil Spec bird for bird-ingestion tests on jet
> >    engines. (Similar procedure - fire 'em out of a cannon into the
> >    turbine blades and film at high speed so you can watch it get
> >    sliced into cold-cuts.) . . .
>
>So that's where those MRE's come from . . .
>
>:)
>
    We think that's how the cafeteria around here developed UMS
    (Universal Meat Substitute) - or possibly OFS (Other Food
    Substitute)

    BTW: I misspoke myself above: You fire the bird into the
    compressor, not the turbine (although bird-whiz will pass thru the
    turbine, eventually.) And the first thing it will hit is not
    blades, but inlet guide vanes, which are stationary. A little like
    that Ronco Veg-O-Matic - It Slices! It Dices! It never needs
    ironing! Turns a sandwich into a banquet!...

    MDC

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