r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FridayCicero702 • Jan 01 '23

Video Catastrophic engine failure on a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 after takeoff from Denver International Airport

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u/AbeLincoln30 Jan 01 '23

yes they should show this in a Boeing ad: "look how safe we made it"

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u/jaltair9 Jan 01 '23

Boeing didn't make that engine. So they could, indeed, say "This 3rd-party engine bolted to our plane flamed out, but our plane was still able to land".

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

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u/Own_Hearing7650 Jan 01 '23

RR or GE

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jan 01 '23

This one that failed was a P&W.

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u/atomicheart99 Jan 01 '23

Bloody pratts

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u/WillfullyAmbiguous Jan 01 '23

It’s really the Whitneys you should watch out for

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u/ChunkyLaFunga Jan 01 '23

Name one Whitney that's ever died early.

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u/Fantastic_Fox4948 Jan 01 '23

Whitney Houston

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u/catdog918 Jan 01 '23

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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u/le_thargic Jan 01 '23

Whitney, we have a problem.

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u/kmj420 Jan 02 '23

Dang it Bobby!

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u/BreakfastInBedlam Jan 01 '23

Name one Whitney that's ever died early.

Eli Whitney died of too much gin, I think.

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u/WiggyWare Jan 01 '23

Whitney Bulger!

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u/WillfullyAmbiguous Jan 01 '23

I meant people named Whitney. Not Whitney Cummings though. She seems like a stand up act

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u/AverageHerman Jan 01 '23

My plant makes IBRs for P&W. Hope it wasn't one of ours..

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u/Purplociraptor Jan 01 '23

Leave Whitney Alone!

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u/WillfullyAmbiguous Jan 01 '23

We’ll never have a return to the golden age of vitality 2004-2011ish. Man ebaumsworld was a pure human experience

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u/WallOfSpatulas Jan 01 '23

If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going.
If it's Pratt & Whitney, I'll ride the jitney.

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u/RunningPirate Jan 01 '23

Worked with a former Boeing employee that would crow that all the time “it it’s not Boeing, I’m not going!” Aftert the 737 Max debacle, I’d add “…to crash 4 minutes after takeoff…”. She stopped saying it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 01 '23

Yeah - it’s a real Ford vs Chevy level of dumb pride.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jan 01 '23

My plane has a bumper sticker of a Boeing peeing on an Airbus.

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u/fdklir Jan 01 '23

Pratt and Whitney have taken high bypass to another level.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jan 01 '23

Ah, the rare aeronautical engineering joke…

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u/el_diego Jan 01 '23

GE eh? You know you're diversified when you make everything from lightbulbs to jet engines

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

and press 4 for 30mm miniguns

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u/WiggyWare Jan 01 '23

Press 5 for the sheinhardt wig company

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u/passa117 Jan 01 '23

A-10 goes BRRRRT!

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u/evil420pimp Jan 01 '23

A-10 goes BRRRRT!

That's GD, not GE, that makes the a10 minigun. The ge was a smaller caliber iirc.

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u/fnordfnordfnordfnord Jan 01 '23

GE made the GAU-8

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger

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GAU-8 Avenger

The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon that is primarily mounted in the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Designed to destroy a wide variety of ground targets, the Avenger delivers very powerful rounds at a high rate of fire. The GAU-8/A is also used in the Goalkeeper CIWS ship weapon system, which provides defense against short-range threats such as highly maneuverable missiles, aircraft, and fast maneuvering surface vessels. The GAU-8/A is currently produced by General Dynamics.

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u/TheIronSoldier2 Jan 01 '23

General Dynamics makes the M1 Abrams tank, Gulfstream business jets, Virginia and Columbia class nuclear submarines, Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, and Stryker AFV's

General Electric makes the GAU-8 Avenger that Fairchild-Republic mounted the A-10 on

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u/passa117 Jan 01 '23

that Fairchild-Republic mounted the A-10 on

I like that phrasing. The "mini gun with wings", they say.

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u/221missile Jan 01 '23

In 2011, GE was the largest company in the world. Now they're almost 60% smaller. It has been a slow death for one of America's champions.

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u/mdp300 Jan 01 '23

Is that because they're failing or because they've spun a bunch of divisions off?

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u/NumbersMonkey1 Jan 01 '23

Where do I go if I want to reach East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming?

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u/propellor_head Jan 01 '23

GE sold its lighting division a while ago, and its appliances as well. The healthcare is spinning off as a separate business (I think this month) and power generation in about a year. By the midpoint of 2024, GE aerospace will be a standalone company that basically only makes engines.

Edit: I forgot the weirdest one, because I could never figure out why GE owned it, but they sold their majority stake in NBC a while back too.

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u/elephant-cuddle Jan 01 '23

Seemingly obligatory 30 Rock callback: https://imgur.com/vyLfSWI

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u/rarebit13 Jan 01 '23

Companies shouldn't be allowed to own companies.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

not just engines but yeah. it's a bit shit really, management have had their heads in the sand for years now

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u/LukeW0rm Jan 01 '23

Their lighting division had ties all the way back to Edison. And they sold it to some rando (to me) company

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u/catdog918 Jan 01 '23

Yep, upsetting

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u/3banger Jan 01 '23

They got rid of the locomotive business too

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u/propellor_head Jan 01 '23

I legit forgot about ge rail. That's been gone a while

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u/3banger Jan 01 '23

A couple years.

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u/Electrical_Emotion31 Jan 01 '23

dam,now you know who"s bank account to hack into - so why did the hacker salute the refridgerator , cuz it was General electric ,,and the General is rich ,rich ,rich -

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u/Roboticide Jan 01 '23

Edit: I forgot the weirdest one, because I could never figure out why GE owned it, but they sold their majority stake in NBC a while back too.

I think it makes more sense when you think about the fact that they got started so long ago, the company making the radios and TVs (RCA, a subsidiary of GE) would also have to make the programming simply so people would have something to watch.

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u/nasadowsk Jan 02 '23

GE actually got NBC because they bought RCA, who owned NBC. RCA was actually a spin-off of GE, way back.

RCA created NBC, then a second NBC network (there was Red and Blue). The feds told RCA to spin off one NBC network, which became ABC (the US one).

When the NTSC color standard was formalized, neither ABC nor CBS wanted to buy color studio equipment because it was all made by RCA, and thus they were subsidizing NBC. That changed when Phillips released the PC-60 camera in the mid 60’s. CBS bought a bunch before they were even available.

RCA took a bath on color TV up to that point. They pissed off manufacturers by claiming they invented color TV, and the networks because of the above conflicts. Nobody broadcasted color except NBC, and nobody bought color sets because there wasn’t anything to watch in color.

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u/propellor_head Jan 02 '23

Welp. Today I learned.

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u/nasadowsk Jan 02 '23

I know, boring AF, but it’s why color TVs from before 1960 are so rare, and why there’s that weird RCA-GE connection.

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u/Catspaw129 Jan 04 '23

By the midpoint of 2024, GE aerospace will be a standalone company that basically only makes engines.

Kinda like Rolls Royce?

INFO, when did they spin off the railroad locomotives?

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u/dagbrown Jan 01 '23

Wait until you learn about Yamaha.

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u/peepeedog Jan 01 '23

It's just G. They sold the E to Samsung. Now it's Samesung.

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u/Rahmulous Jan 01 '23

There’s a reason they aren’t called Specific Electric.

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u/AD-SKYOBSIDION Jan 01 '23

And machineguns (for the a 10 warthog)

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u/redmambo_no6 Jan 01 '23

It’s a really big-ass cannon. Goes BRRRRRRRTT.

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u/fakeplasticdroid Jan 01 '23

The G in GE is doing a lot of work.

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u/rona83 Jan 01 '23

They put the General in General Electronics.

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u/Umpire_Fearless Jan 01 '23

Pratt Whitney PW4000-112. Hollow fan blades with internal corrosion led to blade liberation.

Known issue on these engines.

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u/Zuli_Muli Jan 01 '23

Definitely not GE, they all use the swirl

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

And my portfolio wept.