The noise emitted by the GE36 UDF Unducted Fan was strong enough to strip the paint off the fin of the MD-90 demonstrator.
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[Aviation Week, Sep 5, 1988, p.32]

Tornado F.3 s/n ZE295
RAF 229 OCU, 65 Squadron, Farnborough 1988

Color slide scanned by Kodak in the 1990s.

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