Rallying gas turbines

Gentlemen,

My working life has allowed me to enter places not normally open to Joe public, one of these was GEC Rugby where they used to build steam turbines. Within the works there was a tubular shaped building which inside was lined with railway sleepers, it was here that the turbines were tested to overspeed to check integrity, on one occasion a turbine decided to shed a blade which excited the containment area and was found a distance away in a built up area but in open ground as luck would have it. If it can happen to brand new turbines then god forbid the idiot who starts an old untested unit.

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campingstoveman
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Indeed, very well put. Greg

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Greg

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