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Rolls-Royce Offers Peek At The B-52’s New Engines Undergoing Testing
Now that testing has begun, Rolls-Royce has provided first looks at the F130 turbofan engines in their dual-pod configuration that will replace the outdated TF33 engines currently equipping the U.S. Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress fleet. Rolls-Royce has offered this imagery as part of an update on the years-long effort to re-engine and modernize the service’s bombers. In fact, the fight to get the B-52 new engines is a saga that dates back decades. (www.msn.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
WHAT?! They're going to still have 8 engines?! I thought they were going to the four-engine configuration.
Keeping the configuration minimizes other modifications/certification issues. Larger engines, for example means they are closer to the ground.
Worked in ECM on B52s at Loring Air Force base in Maine, near limestone Maine..... One impressive a/c there were 32 of the buffs
I saw many years ago a single, high bypass fan in place of the twin engine pod installed for testing whether a single huge fan was feasible to turn it into a four engine jet. I never heard what the results were but I guess the powers that be decided it wasn't a good idea.Can you imagine seeing a real life four engine B-52? That would look totally bizarre.
Probably would have required an inordinate amt. (read: expensive) of wing & plumbing redesign that wasn’t worth the time & effort for a B-52 airframe.
Might as well as developed an entirely new aircraft in that case & they don’t come cheap these days. W/the B-52, they have a time & battle proven airframe. Plus, doing that while maintaining the B-1, B-2, maintaining other line war fighters, & developing the B-21 Raider; would likely be too much budget wise.
Might as well as developed an entirely new aircraft in that case & they don’t come cheap these days. W/the B-52, they have a time & battle proven airframe. Plus, doing that while maintaining the B-1, B-2, maintaining other line war fighters, & developing the B-21 Raider; would likely be too much budget wise.
I was stationed at Blytheville AFB in the late 1950s when it was a new SAC base and the first B-52s arrived. It seemed like every morning at 5:00 AM the flight line maintenance crews would fire up some of the airplanes engines. Many times I stopped what I was doing and watched the full power, roaring and smoke trailing takeoffs.