For those who are skeptical about propellers - Team 2526

[Collin Fultz]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

For those who are curious about how serious fan blade containment is the aerospace industry, check out this certification test performed by Rolls-Royce.

You're right. Years of effort goes into these fan designs in the hope that you only have to run this test once.

Some of the coolest testing we do is this test and the bird strike test, which basically involves shooting ducks at an engine running at full power. As was recently proven in NY, it's a good thing we do it. A friend of mine in the test department designed the equipment to do our most recent bird strike test.

As an MC and announcer...I hope the safety restrictions are very tight on prop-driven robots. Otherwise, I'll be announcing from outside.