These things need to be banned until the long term health-effect of living near them can be properly studied and vetted. There’s strong evidence of negative side effects from the constant low frequency pulse of the turbine’s motion. They built one near a friend of mine’s uncles house. His wife suddenly got herpes out…

A minor failure is when the engine doesn’t want to play by your rules.

AF has stated that the aircraft was not carrying weapons, so it actually could have completed its flight, hypothetically. As an interesting note, the B-36 Peacemaker bomber had such unreliable engines that the AF made it so the crew could not declare a mission abort if there was an engine failure. The airplane had six…