Recent content by co80610

July 19, 1996, TRACON radio transmissions, Boston ARTCC Sardi Sector, Radar Position, starting at 8:25 pm. (003:25 airline time). Many unrelated aircraft transmissions deleted. (“Heavy” refers to a Boeing 747.) 08:25:34, [TWA 800] TWA's eight hundred heavy at 10,000 feet, climbing at 2,000...

Serious questions are appreciated, even though my search for a retired NTSB investigator, with a good memory, who participated in engine #3 disassembly seems fruitless in this forum. However, I did find a retired NTSB investigator, with a good memory, who participated in the reconstruction of...

Some examples of uncontained aircraft turbine engine failures Starting in 1942, German jet powered aircraft were destroying themselves at an alarming rate due to turbine section failures. Inferior quality metal of blades or buckets used in the hot turbine section led to failures binding up...

I don’t know, but I have a qualified opinion to share. While employed by the Air Force, I investigated material failures in turbojet engines. My specialty was hydrogen embrittlement (HE), a field little known in industry and somewhat akin to water seeping into apparently solid rock, then...