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Always good when you can chill out instead of working.    Happy for you that you had a productive day. 
We've *got to* go to Birmingham in a few weeks but we'll go on one of those train things, as I prefer to find my car where I left it. 

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Going to a show that our daughter booked for us.

Yes, don't park a car in the centre of Birmingham, the gangs will strip them. Even in supposed secure carparks right next door to the cop shop.

As a cargo plane, my thoughts were how likely would it be for engine debris, admittedly at high speed with a lot of spin, to penetrate the fuselage (easy, thin aluminium) and the cargo (less likely?)

There is no real difference between a cargo and a passenger planes construction. Some cargo planes do have a strengthened floor to take the weight of pallets and extra loading doors, but the wings, skins and bulkheads are the same. I don't think the cargo has any bearing on this, because for parts of an engine to hit the cargo they have to travel up, so they will miss the other engine if they emerge out the other side of the fuselage.

AIUI there are contained and uncontained engine failures. Smaller things like individual engine blades are supposed to be contained within the engine cowling if they break off. The engine will be destroyed, but things shouldn't fly out of the sides. This is tested during engine certification, and is often implemented by having kevlar bands around the engine. Larger parts - like rotor disks (either whole or segments) are considered to have infinite energy and cannot be contained. If they do break off, they will go through virtually anything. The safety mitigation for these is simply to route critical wiring and hydraulics out of being in direct line with the high energy rotating parts. Engines are also mounted forwards of the front wing spar, so if anything does fly off it doesn't puncture fuel tanks.

If some high energy part of #1 did escape and somehow hit #3 it will be the first known incident of this happening. It will have very serious consequences for air travel. Aircraft are certified to be able to takeoff, fly and land on n-1 engines on the basis that it's highly unlikely that two engines can be damaged by the same event. If that assumption proves to be false then it opens a huge can of worms. n-2 isn't possible on any aircraft, and since almost all are now twins (B-737,767,777,787,A-319,320,330,350) n-1 means zero.

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We've *got to* go to Birmingham in a few weeks but we'll go on one of those train things .....

Just think, if HS2 was completed, we'd get there ten whole minutes quicker,  although we'd have to travel ten miles further by car to get on it.    As it stands, we have quite a few really nice car parks around our way but no actual track. 

Always good when you can chill out instead of working.    Happy for you that you had a productive day. 
We've *got to* go to Birmingham in a few weeks but we'll go on one of those train things, as I prefer to find my car where I left it. 

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Going to a show that our daughter booked for us.

Yes, to clarify, it is the starboard engine I'm talking about the rumours of it flaming out as the nose lifts. Which as Kevin Wood says, is called No3.

Additionally, there is also talk of there being a direct line of sight between the No1 and No3, under the fuselage, so maybe it didn't penetrate the fuselage.

As a cargo plane, my thoughts were how likely would it be for engine debris, admittedly at high speed with a lot of spin, to penetrate the fuselage (easy, thin aluminium) and the cargo (less likely?)

As all my planned work yesterday was cancelled at short notice, and because I was in Brummingham so couldn't do anything productive at other sites, a colleague and I decided to "collaborate" at the city centre German Market.

Lots of frothy beer and a 20" hotdog.

That's what I call a great day in the office .  And not getting stabbed whilst in Birmingham is a bonus.

As an added bonus, popped in to see that reprobate Mr DTM - great to catch up Mark

That’s exactly what I used Stu. Used it on cam cover gasket corners and various other places.
Elring 036.164.
Found it to be very good.

One Billion.

Not sure if that is $ or £.

Is that an American billion or a British billion? 

As to the currency, well it won't make much difference before long....     

Us and UK billions are the same

Us as in the 'Royal We'?   

You are of course correct that an American billion is the same as a British billion, but it wasn't always the case.

A British billion was a million million and an American billion was a thousand million. Britain started using the American version in the 1970's I believe. 

I'm far too young to remember this of course.

I thought it was still a million million here. Obviously didn't get the memo. 

Sorry to hear that all your billions aren't worth as much as you thought Ron.                                                                   

Will be phoning my accountant first thing tomorrow. 

Fella that bought it (from Scotland) said he wasn't going to use it, just take it 3 miles for it's MOT every year, but sit around with his mates admiring it :-\t...... rather strange, but there you go....
YG03FNV. Looked a good solid example - not my favourite colour, but that's subjective I suppose...

What's the Autodoc-available equivalent of the VX/GM "grey goo" I commonly see referred to? Specifically I'm after some for resealing a V6 breather box. Or is it the case that grey goo is grey goo is grey goo, and so long as it's grey it doesn't really matter about the label? 


For example, would this match ? - [size=78%]https://m.autodoc.co.uk/elring/15483203[/size]


An actual Vauxhall dealership (or halfway decent motor factors) would be an hour's round trip at least these days, whereas I'm in no rush and can just add a tube of something to my order and wait a few days.


Cheers, Stu