We took a trip on a Super-80 aircraft a few years ago and sat way in the
back. The view out our window was nothing but engine casing. The whole
trip all I could think about was a big turbine doing that same thing,
right beside my head.
> As a side note, a lot of the "boiler" explosions in the 19th century
> were actually flywheel explosions. The steam engines of the day used
> huge 10+ foot iron flywheels and when one of those let go, it had a
> lot of metal flying around.
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