This week’s video comes from Ohio where ground tests have begun on the world’s largest commercial aircraft engine.
GE Aviation’s GE9X is a 100,000 pound thrust class engine that is going through its paces at the company’s Peebles Test Operations facility prior to initial deployment on Boeing’s new 777X aircraft.
According to GE Aviation, the GE9X engine will have the largest front fan at 134 inches in diameter with a composite fan case and 16 fourth generation carbon fibre composite fan blades.
Other key features include an 11-stage high-pressure compressor; a third-generation TAPS III combustor; and CMC (ceramic matrix composites) material in the combustor and turbine.
Don’t you just love it when engineering excellence shows what it can achieve pity Frank Whittle is not here to see a 100,000lb thrust version of his concept.
Try replacing that with an electric motor, however, electric power does have its place in the scheme of things and I would love to own a Tesla. i just wish politicians would talk to the professional engineers that are out there so that they get the balance right for once.
Asking a politian to talk to anybody that lives in the real world would be a complete waste of time.the only time that they listen to anyone is when it lines either their pockets or the bankers that fund their way of life. Lets vote to leave the EU and Great British engineers can stand on their own two feet and make our country great again.
Fantastic engineering shown here by GE.
Could someone please tell us how competitive Rolls-Royce are in comparison?
Similar in power output to the Rolls Royce Trent XWB-97 with 97,000 lbf .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWmcPq7ktsk
“I just wish politicians would talk to the professional engineers”
But that would require politicians to be professionals as well: and most cannot spell, let alone behave, professionally. My only comfort, watching UK politicians kindergarten games (Parliament! -and I suspect most other similar bodies are just as infantile) is that I believe they have no idea whatsoever of the present levels of digital technology that will [within 5 years is my estimate] literally replace their ramblings for good.
Have look on the internet for lots of information about the RR Trent XWB-97 which is a more powerful version of the current in-service Trent XWB-84