Rolls-Royce wins Pentagon contract to build new B-52 engines

seekingalpha.com/ ^ | Sep. 24, 2021 6:25 PM ET

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Oh yea just added stupid to the list.

[DesertRhino]

it’s 4 in this upgrade. The old layout of 4 twin pods is being changed to 4 big turbofans. More power, better gas mileage and range.

[Yo-Yo]

A military pilot called for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running “a bit peaked.”

Air Traffic Control told the fighter pilot that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.

“Ah,” the fighter pilot remarked, “The dreaded seven-engine approach.”

[infool7]

There is a story about the military pilot calling ATC for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked." ATC told the fighter jock that he was number two behind a B-52 that had one shut down.

"Ah," the pilot remarked, "the dreaded seven-engine approach!"

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[infool7]

Missed it by THAT much

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[PLMerite]

Piling on:

[DesertRhino]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHdIRwKtnig

Great animation on what they are doing.

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t know if they’re going to find too many 8 fingered pilots.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yes, they won - But politically speaking, Rolls would be ill-served “because they are a foreigners” ... Wait for this too to be cancelled later due to pressure from New York-Mass-CT legislation for “their” home-town (too expensive but labor_favored) local companies!

But it is about time! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to get these engines updated.

[Larry Lucido]

You want to avoid the dreaded seven-engine approach.

[VTenigma]

And the profits go to Great Britain

[blueunicorn6]

I still say one engine for one airplane.

You don’t see them putting 8 engines on a tank.

OK, Steve McQueen did it but he’s the only one.

[Fai Mao]

Each plane has 8 engines.

[Billthedrill]

You can’t get away from Mil-Spec. If you put another two wings on it the Air Force is gonna want to put eight more engines on it too.

[Fai Mao]

The reason is engine size. They need to be able to fit the engines into the cowlings.

[GreyFriar]

Seeing that the B-52 has 8 jet engines, there is definitely a need for more than 2 engines per plane, plus there is the need for replacement engines to put in the plane during engine overhaul times, instead of it being a “hangar queen”.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I doubt there’s enough clearance below the wing for a high bypass turbofan engine anyway. The way those wings flap, a large diameter engine would be scraping the nacelle on the runway all the time.

[conductor john]

Please, I beg everyone to watch ‘Dr. Strangelove’- Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece! It is hilarious! Great cast( George C. Scott et al- ‘ pink panther’ star plays two or three different parts!)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...that’s a good one.

[thinden]

UK & RR “building back better”