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Radar To Detect Foreign Object Ingestion By A Jet Engine, Gene Greneker
Radar To Detect Foreign Object Ingestion By A Jet Engine, Gene Greneker
1999 Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada, First Joint Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC
Each year commercial, private and military aircraft jet engines are damaged by the ingestion of foreign objects. Annual engine repair costs for ingestion damage is in the tens of millions of dollars. Bird strikes represent the major foreign object threat to aircraft engines, although large hail and objects found on the ramp can also damage an engine. A radar based foreign object ingestion detection system (FOIDS) concept, the subject of this paper, is capable of determining when an object as small as 4 millimeters has entered a fan jet engine. Additionally, such a system is capable of determining the relative …