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Plenty of youtube videos of a blade-off test - here's a short one [0] of an A380 Rolls Royce engine testing. That's about £9,000,000 of engine being destroyed in this (successful) test.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-8_Gnbp2JA



At the beginning of the video the blades seem to be spinning at about 2RPS, but after the explosion they're spinning much faster. I presume the former was an artifact of the camera's frame rate.


They normally have high-speed cameras running; that short video is a mish-mash of super-slow-mo and regular speed footage. There are much longer versions on YT, e.g. this one [0] which covers it in more detail (watch the people in the room jump when it blows - despite being a fair distance away).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA




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