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Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department: Investigation of ASP 1st rotor,...

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PA1716/5/5/72
Title
Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department: Investigation of ASP 1st rotor, compressor blade failure
Date
17 November 1947
Description

Report No T.79. The stripping of and examination of ASP (build 46) revealed that three of the first stage blades (SJ.4150) had fractured in approximately the same position, about 5/8 blade length from the blade platform. A crack was observed to extend for about 0.4' from the trailing edge on two of these blades, while the third blade had broken completely across

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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Former department reference
ASM Python/compressor blade failure
Language
English
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/ce0af717-0732-48d5-bd69-377d02c236c6/

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Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department: Investigation of ASP 1st rotor, compressor blade failure