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foreign object damage |
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Rags, pieces of paper, line, articles of clothing, nuts, bolts, or tools that, when misplaced or caught by air currents normally found around aircraft operations (jet blast, rotor or prop wash, engine intake), cause damage to aircraft systems or weapons or injury to personnel. Also called FOD. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| A number of claims have been filed over the years, including weather-related losses, hard landings, foreign object damage and rotor strikes resulting from helicopters operating in unimproved conditions. Signs of the transformation are most visible in an area that once contained the F100 high-pressure turbine and high-pressure compressor shops, which are now shrouded in white plastic curtains stretching from the floor to the ceiling to prevent foreign object damage. Both engines fell to the ground largely intact; technicians who inspected the engines have found "no evidence of engine failure, rupture, or foreign object damage," Lopatkiewicz insists. |
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