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Haven't jet engines grown?

#1 Post by ian16th » Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:23 pm

As an erk who worked on Vampire's & Venom's, this makes me cringe:
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Re: Haven't jet engines grown?

#2 Post by Pontius Navigator » Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:16 pm

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#3 Post by ian16th » Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:27 pm

When they get this fat, no one tries to put them in the wing roots, like a Valiant or Comet.
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#4 Post by llondel » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:50 am

That's a 737 engine being serviced by a midget.

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#5 Post by ian16th » Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:45 am

llondel wrote:
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That's a 737 engine being serviced by a midget.
The cowling ain't flat at the bottom! And it definitely ain't a MAX!
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#6 Post by Wodrick » Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:54 pm

CF6 of some mark perchance. The Frogs seem to favour them.
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#7 Post by llondel » Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:03 pm

The other thing to ponder is the diameter of that relative to a 737 fuselage.

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#8 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:07 pm

llondel wrote:
Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:03 pm
The other thing to ponder is the diameter of that relative to a 737 fuselage.
The biggest turbine engine in the world, nearly as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage, took to the skies for the first time on Wednesday, March 14 2018. The GE9X, destined to power the Boeing 777X, has a composite fan stretching 134 inches in diameter, more than 11 feet, tucked into a 14-and-a-half-foot nacelle. The engine is so big, it needs to be specially mounted on the wing to allow for enough ground clearance.

Though the GE9X is designed for the 777X, GE is flight testing the engine on a Boeing 747-400 flying testbed. Using an aircraft with four engines, only one GE9X, allows engineers to put the giant engine through the motions alongside engines with known performance envelopes (GE CF6-80C2s).


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#9 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:04 pm

. The engine is so big, it needs to be specially mounted on the wing to allow for enough ground clearance.
Where did I hear that before?

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#10 Post by llondel » Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:48 pm

This time it's on a big flying test bed, not a passenger-carrying aircraft.

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#11 Post by ian16th » Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:02 pm

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#12 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Mar 25, 2020 3:40 pm

I liked the Lincoln testbed, or the Vulcan come to that. Bit trick sticking the new one on the nose of a 747

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