As long as you aren't married to specific professional applications that do not support linux (Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop, for example), then you can probably get by just fine.
You're assuming the blade shoots cleanly out radially, but at the rotational speeds involved it likely was clipped by subsequent fan blades like a chunk of ice in a blender and propelled forward where it destroyed part of the cowling. Once that structure is damaged the aerodynamic forces would rip it apart.
Yes, Boeing's Military Flight Center is located at Boeing Field. I worked on their AEW&C (mini-AWACS for export) planes and that's where they did test flights.
For those interested in a polished out-of-the-box distro that does not use systemd, MXLinux is based on Debian Jessie and defaults to sysVinit. I'm a fan.
Tried Elementary OS, don't agree that the desktop is "elegant" at all. I disagree with the walled garden paradigm as well.
Currently on MX Linux. Debian based. Sysvinit. Runs wonderfully with Cinnamon.