[Shop-talk] air compressor

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We took a trip on a Super-80 aircraft a few years ago and sat way in the 
back.  The view out our window was nothing but engine casing.  The whole 
trip all I could think about was a big turbine doing that same thing, 
right beside my head.


> As a side note, a lot of the "boiler" explosions in the 19th century 
> were actually flywheel explosions.  The steam engines of the day used 
> huge 10+ foot iron flywheels and when one of those let go, it had a 
> lot of metal flying around.