Timeline for How much water does it take to cause a flameout in a modern turbine engine?
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| May 11, 2022 at 17:54 | vote | accept | Ryan Mortensen | ||
| Apr 20, 2022 at 7:27 | comment | added | ROIMaison | @gwally, I was expecting it to be painful to see engines getting destroyed, but this is painful on a whole other level | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1516657934125707267 | ||
| Apr 20, 2022 at 5:01 | comment | added | John K | When you're running in heavy rain, you put continuous ignition on, so you can have flameouts and relights almost immediately, and the only way you'll know is little fluctuations and spikes in hot section temperatures. | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 18:38 | answer | added | Robert DiGiovanni | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 17:38 | answer | added | Therac | timeline score: 17 | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 16:35 | comment | added | FreeMan | Wow, @gwally, painful indeed! | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 7:58 | comment | added | gwally | As an example, a GENX engine is tested to ingest 3 tons of water a minute. I found a truly painful to watch video that gives some extreme weather highlights of a GENX engine (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_GEnx). Video: youtube.com/watch?v=_PR0Ka_J2P4 | |
| Apr 19, 2022 at 0:58 | comment | added | Adam | While it doesn't answer the specific question, there's plenty of video that demonstrates the testing: youtube.com/watch?v=faDWFwDy8-U | |
| Apr 18, 2022 at 21:44 | history | asked | Ryan Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |