MANAGING THE MAJORS
Like many mechanical failures, this one had begun with a seemingly insignificant flaw. One small shaft in the propeller reduction gearbox had been milled from material with a microscopic imperfection. Eventually that molecular weakness had spawned a crack that migrated radially until the shaft's...
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