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Thanks for sharing that link! It's amazing what people were able to come up with in the 60s, before computers and Wikipedia and 3D modeling... wow.

One of the patents mentioned is how VerSnyder was able to grow a turbine blade in a monodirectional crystalline structure: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3260505?oq=versnyder+196... just using a special mold and a specific alloy. That would later form the turbine blades of the SR-71 Blackbird.

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chasil3y ago

I just reread it. All of it was familiar, but I had forgotten a few of the details.

The first monodirectional blades were introduced to commercial jet engines in 1974, so Concorde definitely did not have this technology with the original engines.

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chasil3y ago

I just reread it. All of it was familiar, but I had forgotten a few of the details.

The first monodirectional blades were introduced to commercial jet engines in 1974, so Concorde definitely did not have this technology with the original engines.

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