X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 933461 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 05 May 2005 11:11:19 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.165; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter07.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter07.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.74]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC9C370567 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 15:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by filter07.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter07.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.74]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20774-11-48 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 15:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-69-44.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.69.44]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAD13706A4 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 15:10:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <427A375F.3010301@frontiernet.net> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 10:10:23 -0500 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Circuit breaker article( redundancy power) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0518-3, 05/04/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter07.roc.ny.frontiernet.net To my knowlege, nobody ever modified any F4s.  They stayed "redundant".  Not at all sure if any of the more current types were designed with "scattered resources". 
Same engineers that designed the F105 and F4 ... Jim S.

David Staten wrote:
The air force and ANG had F4's as well.. did they re-design THOSE as well? or did they just pray not to get nailed by the magic BB?

Dave

Jim Sower wrote:

<... When you route all 3 lines in the same path ...>
I know.  That's the difference between a "backup" system and a "redundant" system.

In the mid '60s, the Air Force spent millions re-routing the backup hydraulic system of the F-105 to the other side of the airplane from the primary.  The Navy wasn't so astute.  ALL of the hydraulics of the F4 came together like in one giant manifold in the center of the belly (interestingly, right at the aim point :o) where one round would make you ballistic.

Great engineering ... Jim S.


David Staten wrote:

Yea.. I believe it was an L-1011.. but the problem was the uncontained engine failure caused the breach of all 3 engine driven hydraulic systems. When you route all 3 lines in the same path.. well..
 
There IS a limit to the amount of redundancy you can have.. and how much you can "armor" fluid lines and cable paths..

You can put enough redundant and protected systems into your craft that it would be named "The Dodo Bird" because it would be too damn heavy to fly.
 
Dave

Jim Sower wrote:

<... You do not have to have more than one level of redundancy to basically eliminate any chance of total failure of the system with failures in the 1000 hour range ...>
You might want to talk to the crew of that 757 or L1011 or whatever it was that crashed in Souix City(?) a few years back because it lost ONE of THREE engines and immediately went ballistic.

The devil made me say that :o) ... Jim S.


WALTER B KERR wrote:

 Ian
I would think that in the case of airliners they have so many redundant systems that if one goes down they have two or three others to continue with, so there is no emergency situation in there case.
Georges
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You do not have to have more than one level of redundancy to basically eliminate any chance of total failure of the system with failures in the 1000 hour range such as fuses as long as the pilot has time to try the backup system? I will take reduncancy ever day of the week compared to a single CB circuit albeit it I have parallel master switch circuit breaker's but I do not intend to reset one as long as the other is working :>)
 
I know we are not changing anyone's veiws on CB vs fuses, but it has been an interesting dialogue.
 
Bernie
 

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