I have no comment on the video, other than to say its cool, but my dad did help design the engines on that plane. He was pretty damn proud of it to. What stuck with me though, was a lesson in charachter he taught me revolving around those Pratt Whitney engines. They had finished them and set up a proto-type for viewing. They had an aircraft wheeled ladder deal where you could look down vertically into the thing. Dad, who desighned the turbine blades, was bendning in for a close look when his cross pen left his shirt pocket (hey he was an engineer) and clanked its way through the engine. Knowing it could cost him his job due to expense of tearing down the engine to retrieve the pen, he still did it as the potential danger to a pilot was too great. He's proud he helped design the plane. I'm proud he told his boss I've FUBARED a multi million dollar engine and it will take days and thousands of dollars to fix it. Its a lesson I've never forgotten.
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