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- PA1716/5/5/72
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Title (The name of the record)
- Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department: Investigation of ASP 1st rotor, compressor blade failure
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Date (When the record was created)
- 17 November 1947
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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
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- ASM Python/compressor blade failure
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- 1 Item
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/ce0af717-0732-48d5-bd69-377d02c236c6/
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