Powered by six 747 jet engines, the plane will require a 12, 000ft runway for takeoffs and landings.
Yet in comparison, jet engines-- having fewer moving parts--are ten times more reliable than pistons.
Its jet engines and cockpit instruments are in strong demand from both the military and airlines.
Four turbofan jet engines, with afterburners, are each able to provide more than 30, 000-lbs of thrust.
Jet engines on commercial planes talk in a social network with technicians to increase fuel economy.
Had today's computer-controlled jet engines been around then, Munson would likely be alive and flying today.
General Electric, another American company, will sell more than a hundred advanced jet engines.
Rolls-Royce, the leading European maker of jet engines for airliners, has made no comment on this.
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No one denies that volcanic ash can cause jet engines to fail in flight.
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Had today's computer-controlled jet engines been around in 1979, Munson would likely be alive and flying today.
No other company in the world is currently capable of producing jet engines with such demanding performance specifications.
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The eruption sent vast amounts of ash into the atmosphere which poses a threat to aircraft jet engines.
Salesforce is enabling that interface so that humans and turbine or jet engines could collaborate through a social network.
It is just trying to keep pace with its enormous twin jet engines.
But new Silvercrest jet engines under development by Snecma, a French manufacturer, will be delivered with no designated TBO.
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Yet this giant is an eclectic collection of seemingly unrelated pieces--jet engines and lightbulbs, synthetic polymers and Friends sitcoms.
Our work is really around really recruiting high-tech manufacturing, resources that help us make jet engines and gas turbines.
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Jet engines and energy infrastructure did not flex their muscles this quarter, but both make sense from a long-term perspective.
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Planes with jet engines were faster, more comfortable and somehow more modern-looking than ones with whirly things on the wings.
Rhenium has two major uses: one is at concentrations of 2 or 3% in nickel cobalt alloys for jet engines.
If the world is getting hooked on silicon power, it doesn't make sense for jet engines and reinsurance to outrank computers.
The customer's hunger for cheaper seats alone has encouraged airlines to cut almost everything out of flying except the jet engines.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
"You can go up and down the personnel chart and find out who knows about fuel injectors for jet engines, " Aaron says.
During the Cold War, it poured billions of dollars into the development of new technologies such as jet engines, nuclear power and lasers.
He's betting there will be increasing demand for things like high-efficiency jet engines and locomotives that go farther on a gallon of diesel.
Aviation officials feared the dust could stop jet engines - an unacceptable hazard - and Ms McDonagh was among the thousands left stranded.
Whereas in the 1960s, jet engines were long and slim, today they have a vast opening at the front containing a giant fan.
The ash sandblasted all the surfaces of the aircraft and caused all four jet engines to cut out when the melted ash coated their interior.
The conglomerate, which makes everything from jet engines to kitchen appliances, competes with companies like 3M, Boeing, United Technologies and Dow Chemical.
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