Interim report confirms cracked blades not cause of IAF Apache crash Sources close to the family of Maj. (res) David Zohar were quoted by Yediot Aharonot that said the family had rejected the ...

7. Stressed blades. A finite element model of the LP-A L-3 dovetail determined the level of stress found normal to the cracks and included load transfer from the blade to the disk on the three lands.

A Pratt & Whitney analysis has narrowed the likely cause of a turbine blade crack on the F135 in February to a fault in the casting process, says Bennett Croswell, president of the military ...

Mistuned blades are inevitable in compressor, and modal parameters of mistuned blades will change significantly compare with tuned blades. In this paper, mistuning stiffness is introduced and a lumped ...

Cracked Turbine Blade Grounds F-35 Fleet The U.S. military grounded its fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters after a routine engine inspection revealed a cracked turbine blade.