Posted on 03/16/2018 8:06:05 AM PDT by C19fan
Incredible footage has revealed the moment that the world's biggest jet engine took to the skies for the first time, ahead of its planned maiden commercial flight in 2020.
The huge GE9X powerplant, which is as wide and tall as the fuselage of a Boeing 737, is being built for the latest version of the firm's long-haul 777, the 777X 'megaplane'.
General Electric has now begun flight trials of the prototype, after delays caused by technical problems stopped tests originally planned for late last year.
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You cannot get voluminous airframes from an aircraft designed above the speed of sound. Also the energy and maintenance cost still is prohibitive.
The only possibility is a business jet or military purposes
It was designed by Yun Hung Lo:-)
Poor people shouldn’t be flying anyway. Air travel now is no different than riding a Continental Trailways bus with the urine and shit sloshing around all day behind you.
IMHO sonic boom considerations will always make commercial SST “too hard” to do overland. If you really want to save time, figure out how to make commercial STOL aircraft so that you can obviate the need to assemble passengers into an airport as we know it. Hey, if Elon Musk can land rockets back on their launch pads . . .
” It’s ridiculous the cross country/overseas travel time is the same today as it was in 1965.”
Why,what’s the rush?
It stayed the same for many years prior to air flight.
From the Northeast to China takes about 14 hours-——to me that’s a miracle.
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Ahhh yep.
The land and contact deals along that line are skyrocketing and making many demonRAT politicians and their families very rich.
I would rather go by ship but that’s not offered on a routine basis anymore.
The photo with that big engine just looks oversized for the airplane and that airplane is a 747!
Paying an extra $1,000 to save an hour is only of interest to people whose time is worth $1,000/hr.
I lived in El Toro as a kid and it was loud as heck some days. Lots of lead sleds in my day.
Yes was loud. Many of my young friends were marine brats. I went to Old Mission School and by the time they got to speed the BOOMS would shake the walls of my little school. Grandpa and my dad were at Yuma Test site and again the BOOMS were pretty much ubiquitous sometimes in evening. I don’t think I’ve heard a sonic boom in decades now.
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