From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,885dab3998d28a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: Ariane 5 failure Date: 1996/10/31 Message-ID: <96103118344662@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193543720 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU x-vms-to: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-vms-cc: CONDIC Date: 1996-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan 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 Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 561.796.8997 M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 561.796.4669 P.O. Box 109600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 Internet: CONDIC@FLINET.COM =============================================================================== "A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich" -- John Jacob Astor. ===============================================================================