Lufthansa Technik Ag

Tim Frederik Zippel

Jan Oke Peters

Eugen Roppelt

Jan Sassmannshausen

Tristan Lietz

A device enables borescope inspection of turbine blades of a high-pressure turbine stage of a jet engine. The device has a bend-free guide pipe for introducing a flexible borescope. The device also has: a guide for the guide pipe, the guide being configured to provide clear and reproducible positioning and orientation of the guide pipe; and a securing device configured to releasably secure the guide to an outer side of the jet engine. The securing device is configured to adjust the guide to a predetermined orientation with respect to the outer side of the jet engine. The guide pipe is rigid and shaped in such a manner that an end of the guide pipe that is introduced into the jet engine when the guide is orientated correctly is orientable so as to be directed between two predetermined guide blades.

Device and method for borescope inspection of jet engines

A method for a position determination of a turbine blade of a high-pressure turbine stage of a gas turbine that is connected to a high-pressure compressor via a shaft, wherein each turbine blade of the high-pressure turbine is recorded on a record card with a relative position. The method includes: determining a position of a blade lock of a stage of the high-pressure compressor, where the stage is selected such that, when the gas turbine is mounted, the blade lock is brought into view of a boroscope, which is guided through a boroscope opening on the gas turbine by rotating the shaft, and so that the blade lock can be identified; and marking that turbine blade on the record card that is in view of a second boroscope, which is guided through a second boroscope opening on the gas turbine when the blade lock is in view of the boroscope.

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Hasloh, Germany

Tim Frederik Zippel