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A lot of fighters have "emergency power" controls that will push the engine past its normally rated power band for a short time at the cost of drastically short
by dpe82 6y ago
A lot of fighters have "emergency power" controls that will push the engine past its normally rated power band for a short time at the cost of drastically shortening the life of the engine. I would guess that's what this is and why pilots are normally forbidden from using it.
- jeffbee 6y agoIt's very interesting that engineers can compute this threshold to a 2% error.
- SECProto 6y ago"Any fool can build a bridge that won’t fail, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that just barely won’t fail"
- tialaramex 6y agoBridge building video games suggest that in fact fools mostly build bridges that fail spectacularly and are astonished that things that can't work don't work.
- evgen 6y agoAs a more historical example of this, a lot of WWII fighters had a max power setting on the throttle that had a wire strung across it, but the pilot could break past the wire to go to 'War Emergency Power' and gain anywhere from 15-50%+ more horsepower from the engine. The use had to be logged and after a few hours of this the engine would need to get a complete tear-down and rebuild. It is basically a 'you are trading away this engine to save your life' setting, but sometimes that was a necessary thing to do.