Abstract: Foreign matter ingestion into a jet engine is a significant hazard to the safety of aircraft. While soft body ingestions (i.e., bird or ice ingestions) have been extensively researched, the threat posed by uncrewed aircraft ...

Abstract: Foreign object ingestion into engines has been studied for many years, but the focus has been on soft bodies (i.e., birds, ice). Recently, there has been a dramatic increase of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) in the airspace ...