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I would still think that intake at the top of the fuselage should be less likely to ingest debris, the military would be an ideal means to test it in transport
by Shivetya 12y ago
I would still think that intake at the top of the fuselage should be less likely to ingest debris, the military would be an ideal means to test it in transport configurations.
- Sanddancer 12y agoThere's been a decent amount of research that the upper portions of the fuselage are more durable locations for engines. The A-10 for example, has its engines located up and to the rear for that reason, and the experimental YC-14 [1] also had the engines placed up high, albeit for different reasons, but avoidance of ingestion was definitely a nice side effect. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14