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Making a new engine technology takes a long time. The jet engine took decades before its reliably seen for consumer use. It's likely there are still a couple mo
by akhatri_aus 9y ago
Making a new engine technology takes a long time. The jet engine took decades before its reliably seen for consumer use. It's likely there are still a couple more funding rounds down the road.
Why put in a large amount when you could wait for it and still hedge yourself in the meantime.
- grondilu 9y ago> The jet engine took decades before its reliably seen for consumer use. Wasn't the jet engine developed under very different circumstances? Like, with much lower computing power for CFD analysis, no CAD software and stuff? Also, you're talking about consumer use but RE hasn't even built a full prototype and doesn't plan to test one (on the ground) before 2025. Edit. 2020 instead of 2025, my bad. I may have read 2025 in a different article, possibly about the first test flight.
- kitd 9y agoArticle says 2020
- le-mark 9y agoThere's a lot of art in the production of truly high tech engines. See for example China's difficulty creating a single crystal turbine blades for a turbo fan to use in it's J20 stealth fighter. They can of course use a lesser engine, but the capability of the fighter will be much less than its contemporaries. Boeing is most likely buying access to the this art.