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"Thomas Schoene" wrote:
George Ruch wrote: [snip] They called in an unducted fan or ultra-high bypass turbofan. Pictures: http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages/Rarebird/0809.html http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/NASM/Img0052.jpg So much for memory g Right idea, wrong end of the engine. /------------------------------------------------------------\ | George Ruch | | "Is there life in Clovis after Clovis Man?" | \------------------------------------------------------------/ |
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"Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:11:57 -0700, George Ruch wrote: I remember what may be the same picture, a DC-9 fitted with a high-bypass turbofan, and multiple scimitar-shaped fan blades extending from the first-stage fan. Damned if I can find it now, though. Nothing like it so far on the NASA Dryden site. Any other ideas? We put ours on the spine of the Jetstar and drove it with bleed air. That DC-9 you recall probably belonged to GE, which has a test facility in Mojave. GE red hats from North Base did the UDF and the GE90. IIRC there is only an artist's rendering of the UDF on an MD-80, while the engine actually flew on the flight test 727-100 that lives at Mojave. |
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Scott Ferrin wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:07:05 +1100, wrote: John Keeney wrote: snip I'ld guess you'd end up with an all weather plane between a P-38 and P-61 in size. Likely twin turbo prop to free up the center line for radar and the gun. A couple of alternatives for the centerline gun - Through the prop hub as per WWII engine mounted guns (wasn't the original idea for a 20mm Birket/hispano like this from WWI?). - Rear engine as per some studies for CAS in the 80s, BA? Or both as per Dornier 335, hmmm 2 x Bear engines (15,000hp each) might be a bit much. I imagine it might be a bit large too :-) Just how long would the main gear have to be? |
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:11:14 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote: "Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:11:57 -0700, George Ruch wrote: I remember what may be the same picture, a DC-9 fitted with a high-bypass turbofan, and multiple scimitar-shaped fan blades extending from the first-stage fan. Damned if I can find it now, though. Nothing like it so far on the NASA Dryden site. Any other ideas? We put ours on the spine of the Jetstar and drove it with bleed air. That DC-9 you recall probably belonged to GE, which has a test facility in Mojave. GE red hats from North Base did the UDF and the GE90. IIRC there is only an artist's rendering of the UDF on an MD-80, while the engine actually flew on the flight test 727-100 that lives at Mojave. You're right. I was thinking, as I wrote "DC-9", that something wasn't right about that, but I couldn't quite remember what. It was a 727, not a DC-9, is what. Photos of it, with the odd engine, would show up now and then as a "look at that" item in the various aviation magazines. There was at least one in "Straight and Level". Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
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"Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:11:14 -0800, "Tarver Engineering" wrote: "Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:11:57 -0700, George Ruch wrote: I remember what may be the same picture, a DC-9 fitted with a high-bypass turbofan, and multiple scimitar-shaped fan blades extending from the first-stage fan. Damned if I can find it now, though. Nothing like it so far on the NASA Dryden site. Any other ideas? We put ours on the spine of the Jetstar and drove it with bleed air. That DC-9 you recall probably belonged to GE, which has a test facility in Mojave. GE red hats from North Base did the UDF and the GE90. IIRC there is only an artist's rendering of the UDF on an MD-80, while the engine actually flew on the flight test 727-100 that lives at Mojave. You're right. I was thinking, as I wrote "DC-9", that something wasn't right about that, but I couldn't quite remember what. It was a 727, not a DC-9, is what. In '97 when i was contracting at Boeing Everett there was a manager with the MD-80 artist's rendition on the wall and i mentioned that the engine had at least flown on a 727. Photos of it, with the odd engine, would show up now and then as a "look at that" item in the various aviation magazines. There was at least one in "Straight and Level". The funny part is that the flying MD-80 artist's rendition is used fairly commonly to show the engine, even though it never happened. |
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Mary Shafer wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:11:14 -0800, "Tarver Engineering" wrote: "Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:11:57 -0700, George Ruch wrote: I remember what may be the same picture, a DC-9 fitted with a high-bypass turbofan, and multiple scimitar-shaped fan blades extending from the first-stage fan. Damned if I can find it now, though. Nothing like it so far on the NASA Dryden site. Any other ideas? We put ours on the spine of the Jetstar and drove it with bleed air. That DC-9 you recall probably belonged to GE, which has a test facility in Mojave. GE red hats from North Base did the UDF and the GE90. IIRC there is only an artist's rendering of the UDF on an MD-80, while the engine actually flew on the flight test 727-100 that lives at Mojave. You're right. I was thinking, as I wrote "DC-9", that something wasn't right about that, but I couldn't quite remember what. It was a 727, not a DC-9, is what. Photos of it, with the odd engine, would show up now and then as a "look at that" item in the various aviation magazines. There was at least one in "Straight and Level". Mary The UDF on an MD-80 flew. They even took it to Farnborough in 1988. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/212668/M/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/340963/M/ Tom Mosher |
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"Tom Mosher" wrote in message om... Mary Shafer wrote in message . .. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:11:14 -0800, "Tarver Engineering" wrote: "Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:11:57 -0700, George Ruch wrote: I remember what may be the same picture, a DC-9 fitted with a high-bypass turbofan, and multiple scimitar-shaped fan blades extending from the first-stage fan. Damned if I can find it now, though. Nothing like it so far on the NASA Dryden site. Any other ideas? We put ours on the spine of the Jetstar and drove it with bleed air. That DC-9 you recall probably belonged to GE, which has a test facility in Mojave. GE red hats from North Base did the UDF and the GE90. IIRC there is only an artist's rendering of the UDF on an MD-80, while the engine actually flew on the flight test 727-100 that lives at Mojave. You're right. I was thinking, as I wrote "DC-9", that something wasn't right about that, but I couldn't quite remember what. It was a 727, not a DC-9, is what. Photos of it, with the odd engine, would show up now and then as a "look at that" item in the various aviation magazines. There was at least one in "Straight and Level". Mary The UDF on an MD-80 flew. They even took it to Farnborough in 1988. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/212668/M/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/340963/M/ That's really cute, but not the one in the picture we are discussing. |
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message ... "Tom Mosher" wrote in message om... Mary Shafer wrote in message . .. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:11:14 -0800, "Tarver Engineering" wrote: "Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:11:57 -0700, George Ruch wrote: I remember what may be the same picture, a DC-9 fitted with a high-bypass turbofan, and multiple scimitar-shaped fan blades extending from the first-stage fan. Damned if I can find it now, though. Nothing like it so far on the NASA Dryden site. Any other ideas? We put ours on the spine of the Jetstar and drove it with bleed air. That DC-9 you recall probably belonged to GE, which has a test facility in Mojave. GE red hats from North Base did the UDF and the GE90. IIRC there is only an artist's rendering of the UDF on an MD-80, while the engine actually flew on the flight test 727-100 that lives at Mojave. You're right. I was thinking, as I wrote "DC-9", that something wasn't right about that, but I couldn't quite remember what. It was a 727, not a DC-9, is what. Photos of it, with the odd engine, would show up now and then as a "look at that" item in the various aviation magazines. There was at least one in "Straight and Level". Mary The UDF on an MD-80 flew. They even took it to Farnborough in 1988. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/212668/M/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/340963/M/ That's really cute, but not the one in the picture we are discussing. How about this ugly thing mounted on what appears to be the wing of a DC-9 (upper right image in the group of three). http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...on/q0067.shtml |
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wrote in message y.com... How about this ugly thing mounted on what appears to be the wing of a DC-9 (upper right image in the group of three). http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...on/q0067.shtml It's not as pretty as the one in the picture in question. Although the DC-9 would have provided a much more likely vehicle for production. The UDF was tested back when Pratt was sucking gas, but things have changed since then. |
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