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Old 23-11-2009, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Nesti View Post
Your education is FBW is a little misguided. ........you're absolutely clueless and seem to know nothing about what really goes on.

Mechanical systems are almost totally measurable, electrical/electronic systems can and do fail without warning. End of story.....
I've seen a hot end turbine..not just a blade..the whole assembly...depart the main shaft, skip down the wing, score the flap and end up some farmers paddock (never to be seen again) near Albury.

Forgive me if my faith in crack testing/wear/spectral/creep/tension/fluid anaylsis is a little less than fanatical.

Unforseen major failures can & do occur on the mechanical side of the fence.

But...being clueless, I guess my faith in a highly networked system with dozens of pathways and redundancies is misguided.

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