Modeling a twisted blade on autocad?? PLease help!

At 06:15 PM 7/17/02 -0700, you wrote:

>A little OT, but in some past reading on turbine blades, there was a
>reference to the DeHavilland 'Comet''s engines not working properly until
>its' carbon fiber blades were replaced with metallic ones. Of course, that
>was '50s carbon fiber technology.

The two things that are certain about the Comet are two: 1) they didn't
crash because of engine trouble (metal fatigue did it, specifically the
window frames), and 2) nobody in the 50s ever used carbon fiber composites
in the motors. It was at least another 10-15 years before it was even
invented.



Regards, Hoyt McKagen


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