"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
news:08tsf.9585$xF6.1071@fed1read01...
... had a front row seat (actully it was an exit row window seat...) for a
compressor stall on an America West Airbus while departing Detroit enroute
home to Phoenix.

Just after liftoff we heard/felt a moderate "bang" and I glimsed some
flame out the back of the left engine just about the time the gear was in
transit. Captain came on the I/C and said it was due to wake turbulence
from the Northwest Airlines aircraft that departed ahead of us.

Did you feel some turbulance?


Flight continued to Phoenix without any further issues.

Pretty interesting when you momentarilly take "suck" out of the "Suck ...
Squeeze ... Bang ... Blow" chain.

Ummm...that doesn't apply to turbines....at least not as a discrete
sequence.


Am I correct in thinking that disrupting the airflow into a turbofan
engine sets up a momentarilly over-rich mixture (hence the visible flame?)

MTL.