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Re:Ram air turbine by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:12PM (#11441054)
You'd think the RAT would charge a battery acting as buffer. But who am I to armchair quarterback an entire aerospace industry.
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Re:Ram air turbine by astrodust on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:28PM (#11441202)
Having a sufficiently large battery introduces another point of failure, something undesirable in a situation where you're already in bad shape.

You don't deploy the RAT unless shit is going sideways.

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Re:Ram air turbine by JorgeGT on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @08:09PM (#11443490)
> You don't deploy the RAT unless shit is going sideways.

We can't also confirm nor deny that RAT is a hand-picked acronym to make the "rats leaving the ship, we're doomed" joke.

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