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by dd82 6y ago
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/38156/why-bother-having-different-engine-options-on-one-aircraft https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/38156/why-bothe... might be helpful
- dmurray 6y agoOne of the answers [0] on that page even discusses the next step in decoupling airframes from engines - sorry, I meant decoupling their supply: Power Generation as a Service complete with on-demand billing and feature locking. It's not well sourced, nor highly upvoted, but fascinating if true. > These days, the engines are often leased, not bought, as part of a "power generation package"...The only physical difference between two "different versions" of a particular engine type, with different advertised power ratings, may [be] the electronic engine control system. In that situation, the airline might negotiate a "total power generation" deal where they only pay for the "higher rated" engine when they actually use it. [0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/38196 https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/38196
- tibbydudeza 6y agoUsed to work for a bank many moons ago and we bought a new mainframe (Unisys) and few months down the line we had major month end batch processing issues. So they payed Unisys a not so small chunk of money to "unlock" the second CPU board which was always present inside the mainframe that was installed. As a PC guy I was gobsmacked.