This is great, I remember when I was in grad school, I was chatting with my professor and he mentioned how all the turbofan data that was (at the time) available was rather out dated.  The models we used made some egregious assumptions.  A lot of our effort was wasted validating data that ultimately proved to be largely inaccurate.<p>I hope this will encourage researchers to collect accurate data and make it available publicly.  Kudos to this team!