hey Skippy, i work at a private FBO in NY and have seen a rolls royce engine crack from a bird [feathers and all still in the exhaust back side of the engine], granted it was a smaller aircraft [i ithink a Hawker or Citation] but it cracked a few of the blades and had to wait on a new engine to come from canada...LOL
estimated cost on the parts [$4million]...ouch
Only 4 million?
I would be very surprised if an engine on a 747 GE or Rolls Royce would look like the one in the picture after a bird strike. I have seen television programmes where they fire frozen chickens into these engines to test them. The chickens normally come out worse for wear and the engines do not explode. They have a very expensive and state of the art protective cowling to keep all the broken bits inside and away from the fuel tanks in the wings. Granted an expensive repair job for someone back at the hanger.
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