Timeline for Why don't stealth aircraft designs use podded engines?
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| Dec 27, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | David Richerby | Ease of maintenance would be the main reason for putting engines in pods, which is presumably why all modern jet airliners use that scheme | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 0:53 | comment | added | alephzero | Also, the air intake for supersonic aircraft needs to be relatively long, to reduce the airspeed to subsonic before it reaches the engine. It may contain internal moving parts, and/or use the geometry of the airframe ahead of the intake to control the position of the shock waves as the airflow slows down. A podded engine design would make those features impractically big and heavy. | |
| Oct 5, 2015 at 20:37 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 5, 2015 at 20:32 | history | answered | Ryan Minor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |