Timeline for Why do large aircraft have their engines mostly on the wings, while smaller ones tend to have them in the tail or the tip?
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| May 7, 2015 at 19:56 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2014 at 19:30 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @Antzi: Yes, the center part is the heaviest section of a wing. Seeing a wing as two separate things sticking out at the sides will make you forget what is hidden inside the fuselage. | |
| Nov 18, 2014 at 17:34 | comment | added | Antzi | Do you mean the wings are usually just one big structure instead of two separated ones ? | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 6:36 | comment | added | jwenting | The ARJ was developed from the 146, which was designed for the civilian market. The 146STA (I think it was called) was created as a military transport to create extra business, it wasn't the military version that was the initial concept (I may still have a 1980s era marketing brochure for that one I picked up at Farnborough some year). | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 16:13 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @jwentig: Yes, you could, but it would not be prudent. The ARJ was initially a military transport, that's why it looks like one. And without Moritz Sutter, who wanted so dearly to have four-engined airplanes in Crossair, the commercial success would also have not been so great. At Crossair, the 146 had the nickname "Jumbolino". | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 9:38 | comment | added | jwenting | you could make a high wing airliner and have the engines hang under the wing. Think ARJ. Or a low wing airliner and have the engines on top of the wing. Think VFW614. And then there's the Comet, engines in the wing root. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 18:46 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | I learned from this page that the Boeing 737 was initially planned with rear-mounted engines, like the Sud-Aviation Caravelle, which it was meant to replace. By selecting the final version with wing-mounted engines in the underslung design, Boeing could reduce the empty weight of the 733-100 by 700 pounds, no mean feat! | |
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| Jun 26, 2014 at 21:32 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2014 at 21:23 | history | answered | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |