I take it you are aware of this research http://silentaircraft.org/
I am now thanks to you atr42.
Anymore thoughts or suggestions please feel free.
Never mind guys where the threads and posts are if Concorde is going to come alive again Historic is better than not alive.
I am putting money on the LAPCAT project (Reaction Engines, Oxford). In its days of research and development Concorde, was scorned the way some puritans pooh pooh at the concept of LAPCAT – LHR to SYD in 4-6 hours over the Barrants Sea.
X-51A Waverider flew under its own scramjet power for 200 seconds on Wednesday 26 May 2010
All exciting stuff and all happeneing in one century. Good to be alive.
Hi 27vet
What you have presented is acknowledged as fact.
There are some moves towards Hydrogen Cell power plants, already seen in APUs for the Airbus.
There are also devlopments in efficiency in existing designs with many new variants/releases.
e.g. gaining in the re-heat by changing the material of and angle of the fan blades in the reheat chamber in some new versions of military jet engines.
For me it will be a good experience to see where the developments are moving and try to see what investment and return on investment there will in the R&D and what if any will be in savings to operators
Will the end user have to pay to absorb the R&D costs, usually is the case ?
Ashbeater 2000.
Hi Buran
Thks for the update clarification
Feel free to throw any other thoughts or pics in as it will make it a busy few months but fun too.
Boeing’s AERO Online Magazine has a wealth of articles that could prove interesting.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_03_09/article_06_1.html
An article on Boeing development on Fuel Cell APU’s: http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2004/july/ts_sf7a.html
There is also the Airbus version of AERO, FAST: http://www.airbus.com/en/services/publications/
Thanks ThreeSpool
Got your list of URLs in to my to search and to do diary
Any further thoughts please add them as it is a developing topic in the world of aero engines.
Google “Leap x”
Sure – gets some search results related to the CFM devlopments.
Thks and anything else you think of however trivial relating to environmentally friendly aero engines please do post.
Beat this!
Hi Buran
Looks impressive.
Any chance of a source, reference or URL relating to the interesting picture
Thks
USAF Biofuel
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/BIOF013009.xml
Hi Jbritchford
Thanks I shall follow up and add to search and to do list.
Please add any more suggestions or ideas if they come up.
usn has a green fa-18 on vegi oil
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/04/camelina-biofuel-powers-us-navy-fa-18-test-flight
Hi Jackjack
Thanks.
I am extracting all the suggestions as they come and making up a search and to do list.
Any more thoughts/ideas please pile them in.
You could also look into the USAF, US Navy, and Virgin Atlantic experiments with biofuels. If I recall correctly these fuels have lower emissions?
Hi Arkali
Thanks.
I am extracting all the suggestions as they come and making up a search and to do list.
Any more thoughts/ideas please pile them in.
Jay, I have a few suggestions. Firstly, look into borrowing or buying a copy of Rolls-Royce, The Jet Engine – pretty much a bible on engine design and has lots of information on engine improvements for better efficiency.
Look at information from airlines such as Air New Zealand and Virgin who have been conducting bio-fuel flights with companies such as Boeing and Rolls-Royce.
Look in to Pratt and Whitney PW1000G and their geared turbofan.
Look in to companies such as EcoPower and their water wash technologies.
Anything else, send me a PM. It’s my day job 🙂
Hi Symon
Great advice. And shall follow through with all you guy’s suggestions.
Any more thoughts/ideas just pile them in.
I decided I wanted to do something interesting and useful for my dissertation as you don’t get paid for it. Also having been a pilot (albeit CPL trainee) and aircraft buff since a little boy. I also have been flying all over with my parents since I was 15 months old.
Thks
Thks Newforest, KabirT and 27vet
Okay FDR reported located – analysis should reveal a lot. CVR is absolutely vital – still no word I guess. Plus ATC recordings, archive of radar plots (approach and ground), eye witness accounts, wreckage analysis will definitely tell the world what most likely if not definitely happened here.
27vet – many of the items you have listed from the Boeing Ops Manual for that variant of aircraft if they were tried by two experienced pilots, may just not have provided for a runway length for sudden aborted landing and take off. FDR and wreckage will tell their own technical stories.
I am more than slightly puzzled though why two pilots with experience on that model of aircraft and experience of that particular runway and airfield tried to land leaving themselves so short of any recovery. This is why CVR and ATC reports will hopefully reveal a lot.
Geared turbo fans (P+W 1100), GeNX, Open rotor, etc. EasyJet also showed concept aircraft which a much lower fuel consumption. Maybe try to get some material from Bombardier on the Q400 and the CSeries.
Thanks this will make my summer a busy one but very interesting. Please post anything more that comes to mind as it will be very welcome
Best place to ask is the General aviation thread.
However check out P&W and GE, do searches for open rotor or ultra high bypas gas turbine.
http://www.cleansky.eu/index.php?arbo_id=35
In terms of working our a cost benifit for the aviation industry as well as environmental you would have to ask Airbus what a lighter more efficient engine would mean to them (if that is what you are writing about.)
My summer is going to be busy but interesting – thanks and anything else you think of will be most welcome
Thanks
Hi
I have access to hard copies of Flight International in the local library but not the other two as my university has for reasons known only to them stopped getting publications to do with Aeronautics and Aviation.
I shall certainly follow up on your advice and go from there but if you hear of or remember anything else please post as they will be welcome.
Thanks