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Pollution causing jet engine issues is scary. The countries and engineers building the engines don't encounter extreme pollution and the places experiencing the
by kylehotchkiss 7y ago
Pollution causing jet engine issues is scary. The countries and engineers building the engines don't encounter extreme pollution and the places experiencing the worst pollution aren't major hubs for aircraft development. It's an "out of sight/out of mind" type of issue during a record period of air travel growth all around the world
I hope ICAO can begin studying the affects of pollution on aircraft more heavily because compressing air with an AQI over 1,000 (like India has experienced recently) could have very unknown consequences elsewhere in the engine after the blades, (unless it just pushes all the pollution particulates back into the cabin, which is another issue that needs to be solved)
- xadhominemx 7y agoAirborne particulates are absolutely not “out of sight/out of mind” for engineers designing commercial jet engines. That’s an absurd statement. It’s one of the top considerations for those engineers.