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The Biggest Jet Engines in History Are Finally Ready to Power Boeing's Biggest Plane
Popular Mechanics ^ | January 4, 2018 | Sam Blum

Posted on 01/07/2019 8:12:07 AM PST by C19fan

Boeing is set to debut its biggest plane ever next month, and the 777X has finally been paired with the gargantuan GE9X engine that will propel its flight.

The plane is currently housed in Boeing's Everett, Washington, assembly plant, where pictures show it looming over workers as they prepare it for its maiden flight.

The GE9X engine is the biggest turbine engine in the world. At roughly the size of an entire Boeing 737's fuselage, it was subjected to test flights last March when a single turbine was hitched to a 747 testbed.

The engine includes a composite fan more than 11 feet in diameter, tucked into a 14-and-a-half-foot engine capsule, or nacelle. It has 16 composite fan blades and hangs on the 777X's 118-foot wings, which make the new planes the largest two-engine jets in the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: 777x; 787; a380; airbus; boeing; boeing777; boeing777x; everett; ge9x; generalelectric; jets; washington
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1 posted on 01/07/2019 8:12:07 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

That’s a big goose net. Probably suck up the whole gaggle in one swoop.


2 posted on 01/07/2019 8:15:14 AM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: C19fan

Sometimes bigger ain’t necessarily better


3 posted on 01/07/2019 8:17:48 AM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: C19fan
Let me help this dweeb: At roughly the size diameter of a entire Boeing 737's fuselage
4 posted on 01/07/2019 8:18:22 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

Yeah, that was poorly written.


5 posted on 01/07/2019 8:20:23 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: C19fan

GE9X engine on the GE engine test aircraft.

6 posted on 01/07/2019 8:21:03 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan

I see the doom and gloomers are out in force this morning.


7 posted on 01/07/2019 8:22:27 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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8 posted on 01/07/2019 8:22:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan
Looks like as of now, the GE is the only engine option.

I read this at Wiki...

Customers bemoan the loss of engine competition, like Air Lease Corporation's CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy who wants a choice of engines. Airbus points out that handling more than one engine type adds millions of dollars to an airliner cost. Pratt and Whitney said "Engines are no longer commodities...the optimization of the engine and the aircraft becomes more relevant."

9 posted on 01/07/2019 8:24:02 AM PST by CodeJockey (Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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< Liberal Moonbat >

"SEE!? SEE?!? We don't need those nasty Fossil Fuels!! GE stands for General ELECTRIC!!"

< /Liberal Moonbat >

10 posted on 01/07/2019 8:29:15 AM PST by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
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To: CodeJockey

OMG!

IMAGINE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT!!!!!..................


11 posted on 01/07/2019 8:30:57 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: red-dawg

Replace ‘moonbat’ with AOC...................


12 posted on 01/07/2019 8:31:29 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: NorthMountain; Kaslin; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m not convinced that 2x “giant” engines (even if the B-52 could fly on only one engine after getting hit by a missile or AA flak), but it is an interesting question.

The B52 has 8x small, relatively inefficient old medium bypass engines on 4x struts now. Each small engine does tend to self-shield its partner (Vietnam flak and AA missile rarely took out both engines in a pod when they were hit). But, do 8x low-bypass or 4x high-bypass engines provide more of a “target area” for debris and frag particles than 2x larger diameter engines, one on each side?

Reading the stories of each B52 shot by North Vietnamese SAM’s doesn’t seem to prove the theory either way.

My instinct says “Better 2x engines on each wing than 1x engine, since the out-of-symmetry forces and damaged ailerons and tails and flaps would make controlled flight harder after the rocket hits.”


13 posted on 01/07/2019 8:32:08 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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Why?


14 posted on 01/07/2019 8:38:03 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: C19fan

roughly the size of an entire Boeing 737’s fuselage

wow.


15 posted on 01/07/2019 8:54:18 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: going hot

They probably will be able to capture , gut and prepare the gooses and serve a planeful of passengers for dinner on the flight.


16 posted on 01/07/2019 8:55:43 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: red-dawg
Once above any cloud layer they can use either wind or solar. Right? 🚀😯
17 posted on 01/07/2019 9:08:56 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: NormsRevenge

Longer than a soccer field and able to leap tall buil....... Never mind


18 posted on 01/07/2019 9:10:11 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
And at night, moonbeam power, as developed by the Governor of California.
“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”

19 posted on 01/07/2019 9:20:15 AM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Nifster

Yeah, ask Rolls Royce about that.


20 posted on 01/07/2019 9:24:52 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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