World's largest jet engine earns official US certification

New Atlas ^ | 29 Sept 2020 | Nick Lavars

[DUMBGRUNT]

The bigger the better.

The tighter the sweater?

[BenLurkin]

the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.
The bigger the doctor, the bigger the bill.

[Gay State Conservative]

I wonder if these engines will be found on non stop flights from Sydney to JFK.

[ridesthemiles]

Next question: Is Boeing moving their facilities out of Seattle/Washington state???

[Secret Agent Man]

thats a big bird scoop

otherwise, cool we’re still making them better

[DUMBGRUNT]

We must, we must

we must increase our bust!

We must, we must

we must increase our bust!

The bigger the better the tighter the sweater the boys are depending on us! We must...

My wife was forced to sing this in gym class about 50 years ago.

[RockyTx]

how many 777s are in Victorville

just curious

[rktman]

If it ain’t wind or solar...................

[PLMerite]

To quote Eddie Murphy: "The sh!t is big."

[SpaceBar]

Sucks up schools.

[House Atreides]

Wow...that’s a beauty.

[prophetic]

In their unrelenting lust for technology to steal, China has targeted all of USA jet engine tech as a priority for all their aircrafts, for both military and civilian. So these guys better watch out and have very good I.T. security and personnel security screening.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The GE9X engine itself is as wide as a Boeing 737 fuselage

That is astonishing!

[coaster123]

“My wife was forced to sing this in gym class about 50 years ago”

Sounds like good a wedding vow.

[CodeToad]

“Next question: Is Boeing moving their facilities out of Seattle/Washington state???”

The 787 seems to be closing down in Washington and moving to Charleston where some of the 787’s were already made.

[RitchieAprile]

It was reported in WSJ today that the 787 production will be consolidated in SC from Everett.

That leaves 737/757/777 and sundry other activities (Phantom Works, P8, maintenance, the Boeing Field facility) .

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That inboard 9X could eat a few of those outboard engines for breakfast!

[redshawk]

1970?
I would have guessed 1930’s or 40’s.
Interesting.

[TangoLimaSierra]

That inboard 9X could eat a few of those outboard engines for breakfast!

Those are now the APUs. Maybe:)

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Each one of these has more that 100,000 lbs of thrust and is more efficient than the current 777 engines. If a Boeing 747 (with a nominal empty weight of 404,600lbs) had four of these, it could conceivably go straight up!