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From: hanc...
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:11

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On Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 7:05:23 PM UTC-5, John Clarke wrote:


> <flashing on 54H60 propeller coming adrift from its 3000 horsepower
> turbine in a test cell--13 foot diameter, about 600 pounds, it climbed
> the wall, sawed a hole through the roof, and made its escape through a
> line of parked cars in the parking lot.  Fortunately nobody was hurt.>

In Tom Watson Jr's IBM memoir, he mentioned a propeller detaching
from the engine on an airplane.  It did not end well.

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