what ever happened to the the ‘experimental’ airliners that where fitted with with what looked like a jet engine turned inside out having huge great high speed prop’s to push them thro’ the air ?. I seem to remember a couple appearing at a Farnborough airshow and great things where expected….where are they now ?.
Just curious, thats all.
Cheers
Gary
By: Bhoy - 13th November 2002 at 00:32
RE: High speed props
this the one you mean? MD-81(UHB) N980DC
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By: mongu - 13th November 2002 at 00:11
RE: High speed props
The 727 was trialed with these engines too. I think the R&D effort was probably killed off by the early 90’s slowdown.
From an accountant’s view, I’d also say that the R&D costs would have gone through the profit and loss account (ie. lots of expenses = big loss) whereas the ability to “capitalise” the cost (not to call it an expense, but an asset – you are paying cash out to acquire an asset, therefore no expense has been incurred due to the accruals concept). Anyway, my point is that the prevailing accounting standards made companies report losses at a time of a slowdown which was certainly one reason for the dropping of UDF programmes.
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By: wysiwyg - 12th November 2002 at 23:21
RE: High speed props
The unducted fan…don’t know what came of it.
By: EGNM - 12th November 2002 at 21:45
RE: High speed props
i think it was the MD-80 High bypass engine – i think it was shelved
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