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Skel said:
The guy is using duct tape to repair an aircraft. Strangely not the scariest thing I've seen when I worked at an airport back in 2004.
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Think that's scary?

Airplane parts including entire engines are engineered with a 10% safety factor. Found this out through a co-worker that helped design engines at Pratt.

Meaning that if a 1000 pound force is calculated, the raw materials will fail at 1101 pounds by design. Enjoy your flight! Having said that, the amount of engineering and testing that is done is also amazing. Apparently Pratt had to scrap an entire engine and start from scratch after one failed on the test stand unexpectedly. That is, they had to rewrite the procedure on how to design an engine after doing root cause analysis. The failure was that early in the process
 
IHateMyJob2004 said:
Think that's scary?



Airplane parts including entire engines are engineered with a 10% safety factor. Found this out through a co-worker that helped design engines at Pratt.



Meaning that if a 1000 pound force is calculated, the raw materials will fail at 1101 pounds by design. Enjoy your flight! Having said that, the amount of engineering and testing that is done is also amazing. Apparently Pratt had to scrap an entire engine and start from scratch after one failed on the test stand unexpectedly. That is, they had to rewrite the procedure on how to design an engine after doing root cause analysis. The failure was that early in the process
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Read Michael Crichton's "Airframe" if you haven't already.
 
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Newbian said:
It looks like the actual support beam is in the middle and the bricks are just for show with how much space is between them and the support.

Otherwise anyone that used that redbox has balls. 😉
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It looks silly and you're supposed to think that the plastic wrap is there for structural support but really, it's probably only there to keep stray chunks of brick from falling off.
 
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