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LX40 – A New Engine in Iqaluit
- foobarian 10y agoI was just looking over some videos posted by a Canadian jet engine shop. Jet engines are so fascinating! Here is one on how to start a jet engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4pqEzfKXcA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4pqEzfKXcA
- davidgould 10y agoAgentJayZ for the win! I spent weeks watching these, and learned a lot more than I really needed about how to rebuild old jet engines. For fun, check out the river racing boat with the turbine engine vs the V8s video too.
- astrodust 10y agoIt's incredibe the infrastructure these things have. A plane is so utterly dependent on having everything ready where it lands, which is why this emergency landing probably throws everything into disarray. Strangely like an F1 car where they don't have a starter on the plane, they need an assist to get going.
- trishume 10y agoAirlines are pretty incredible logistically. The ability to get together all the right tools, a custom tent, a new engine, and engineers onto a heavy lifting plane (of which there are very few in the world) in a reasonable time frame to a remote destination is impressive.
- hvidgaard 10y agoThat is what caught my eye. I'm not really impressed that they did it. But that it was less than a week from the fault, to the plane was flying with a new engine, was impressive.
- astrodust 10y agoThe opportunity cost of this aircraft being out of service for that long must be astronomical.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoThat AN-124 is a huge plane. It landed at Moffet Field once and I saw it coming in and my brain kept rejecting what I was seeing because it was "too big" for how far away it should be.
- stan_rogers 10y agoI can imagine. I was in the (Canadian) Air Force in my youth, and once had the pleasure of marshalling a C5 Galaxy into a parking slot at an airshow, where my previous "biggies" were C137s (essentially 707s), Hercs and Auroras (Orion airframes). Damned hard to judge distance and scale while your brain is telling you to run away.
- chinathrow 10y agoYou are right but you should also see its bigger sister, the AN-225 once live. Mind blowing... https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonow_An-225 https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonow_An-225
- yardie 10y agoI saw an AN-225 outside of Boston Logan. You see it and you still don't believe it. It's just so large it feels like an optical illusion.