You may have noticed them on certain planes when looking out the terminal windows — a kind of shark-toothed look on the back of some planes' engines. Commercial airplanes, outside of their livery, are ...
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Why The Boeing 777 Has Such Large Engines
The Boeing777 is an enormous aircraft, and nearly all of its variants have a higher maximum takeoff weight (545,000 lbs - 766,000 lbs) than an Airbus A340-200 or A340-300 (606,000 lbs - 610,000 lbs).
SEATTLE—Boeing will install new 777-9 engine thrust links later this summer as part of a package of design revisions to fix a fatigue problem in the load-transferring components that contributed to a ...
The thrust-link issue that forced Boeing to ground its 777-9 test fleet last year was caused by a narrow airflow gap that led to vibration and failure, according to newly available information. Boeing ...
Boeing has developed a fix for cracked engine thrust links in its 777X aircraft, caused by unintentional vibration, which had temporarily paused testing last year. The solution involves installing new ...
Pratt & Whitney (P&W) and Boeing are asking the Federal Aviation Administration for more time and for regulatory exemptions as part of design changes they are making to PW4000-112 turbofans and the ...
Flight tests resumed after installation of replacement thrust links. Credit: Matt Cawby Boeing will install new 777-9 engine thrust links later this summer as part of a package of design revisions to ...
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