Questions tagged [thrust]
Questions about the propulsive force of a powered aircraft.
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Flex temperature isn't actually “fooling” the FADEC, right?
I'll be using Airbus terminology here because that's what I know, but I guess the concepts are universally applicable.
The way I understand flex temperature is: It's a user interface for pilots to ...
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Is it true that high-bypass engines are inherently inefficient at higher speeds?
Power consumption=Kinetic energy=$1/2mv^2$.
Thrust=momentum change=$mv$.
I keep being told that aircraft engines are most efficient when their exhaust velocity closely matches the freestream.
The ...
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Can tailwind produce reverse-thrust?
I know that the answer will probably be no, and this question might sound silly, but I wanted to think outside of the box.
If engine air intake comes from the front, and is pushed out through the ...
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Is this plasma-thruster experiment actually measuring thrust? [closed]
This experiment, which is being presented as an initial exploration of the feasibility of using microwave-generated plasmas in a sort of electic jet engine, has been attracting some attention in the ...
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What is takeoff power? [duplicate]
I Am asking about the takeoff power here not how the aircraft takes off.
What do I need if I want to calculate the power required by an aircraft to take off?
What parameters should I consider?
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How much the Concorde secondary nozzle contribute to thrust?
Does anybody knows how much did secondary nozzles bucket type on the Concorde's engines contributed to the increase of thrust during take of and sub-sonic flight? This is picture of the nozzles and ...
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What is the static thrust of a Piper Arrow III?
I want to find out what's the static thrust of a Piper Arrow III (non-turbo) with Mc Cauley propeller at T/O (max) power as function of the air density.
I can't find it in the manual, I know the ...
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How can I calculate the relationship between propeller pitch and thrust?
I am trying to design a WWI propeller so I started calculating. The propeller comes with a specified pitch of 1.75m. The engine is supposed to run at around 1900 rpm and 147kW. These are most likely ...
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What is the takeoff thrust of a CFM56 engine?
So, to be more clear I currently have an assignment about the Boeing 737-800.
I have to find out the total takeoff distance of the aircraft. I'm using Anderson's book " Aircraft Performance and ...
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How to increase payload capacity of plane?
Keeping thrust, wing span, weight (of plane) constant, can we increase the payload capacity (nearly 50% more)? Adding payload to plane, it decreases thrust/weight ratio, how does it affect the control ...
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why some airplanes have their exhaust gases vectored above the wing?
I was looking at images of the SkyCourier shown below
and i have noticed the asymmetrical exhaust pipes in both engines (one pointing up and one is straight), doing my research on the internet, i ...
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How do turbofan internals handle the load from the thrust?
To my understanding, turbofan engines get the majority of their thrust from the fan in front of the engine, up to around 70-80% while the core flow generates around 20-30%.
Forward movement is ...
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Can Flex thrust be lower than climb thrust?
Let's restrict this question to airliners with 2 jet engines.
For the remaining of the question, I'll use the term flex to designate reduced take off thrust as I'm more familiar with airbus's systems....
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GE90-115b turbine horsepower
The GE90-115b is rated at 513 kN maximum thrust and is often said to have 110,000 shaft horsepower, but I have yet to find any document or specification that backs the claim on horsepower figure.
A ...
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Are there any airliners capable of vertical climb with engine thrust only by pointing the nose up?
So, sort of inspired by this question, I was wondering if there were any passenger airliners with enough thrust to fly straight up, supported purely through the thrust of their engines rather than the ...
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How can Lift = Weight; if airliners fly with Thrust-to-Weight ratios = 0.3? [duplicate]
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I'd appreciate it a lot if anyone could explain how the wings can generate lift that is 3.3x more than engine thrust? Is there any experimental proof that this? Or is the assumption that ...
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What is the thrust balance between compressor and exhaust nozzle for a turbojet engine?
I had this question asked in university and the teacher was unable to provide more than a theoretical estimate. The ratio I was given was 15/85.
Obviously in the case of a turbofan this ratio ...
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What are the criteria for conceptual design of thrust reverser in the use of braking?
I'm doing a project: Study of aircraft braking and pre-sizing of associated subsystems. We tried to find criteria for the reverser in the braking phase. I read FAR 25, but I did not find it.
Is there ...
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How does the bypass air provide thrust?
To my knowledge, bypass air produces 80% of total thrust. But I don't understand to how it does that. By accelerating the air, by increasing the speed or increasing the pressure of the air? Is it ...
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Turboprop vs Turbofan: How to compare Specific Fuel Consumption
I understand that Turboprop engines have a lower Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC) than Turbofan engines, on average. I want to see this for myself by analysis, ideally by comparing values of SFC for ...
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Can someone please tell me all the units for the propeller thrust equations?
This answer is excellent:-
Is there any equation to bind velocity, thrust and power?
except that it is (in practice) unusable, since all the units are missing.
I'm guessing we use meters for length ...
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Which is better: a rotor / prop followed by a stator, or contra rotating rotors / props?
It is all in the title.
I'm interested in power absorbed/used for a given thrust, or thrust generated for a given power (same diameters of course).
Just thrust and power. Ignore materials, electric ...
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Why is thrust available constant with speed for turbojet engines, when it varies with speed for turboprop engines?
Similarly, why is power available (nearly) constant with speed for a propeller engine, while it varies for a jet engine?
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Can the assumed temperature be lower than the flat rated temperature?
I was playing with reduced takeoff thrust in a Boeing 737-800 simulator yesterday and was surprised that I could enter assumed temperatures below the flat rated temperature of the engines. The ...
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Why don't we see diverging nozzles or diffusers?
When it comes to fully subsonic propulsion, all outlets are converging nozzles (I did say fully subsonic so no converging diverging). From what I understand, they are flow regulating devices (changing ...
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Do multi-engine jets need all engines with equal age to reduce asymmetry in thrust and fuel consumption arising out of deterioration?
Let's assume, one of the engines on a twin-jet needs replacement and the jet is is fitted with an old engine and a newer engine after the due replacement, the older engine would tend to produce less ...
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Do surfaces ahead of propellers decrease thrust?
I have had this question for ages, nearly impossible to find anything on the web. My experiments confused me even further! Its concerning the blockage effects of surfaces ahead of a propeller. For ...
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Are thrust levers synchronized by default when pushed/pulled? [duplicate]
When I watched this video about the last flight of Juergen "J.R." Raps from SFO to FRA in an A380 (before his retirement) I noticed he lines up or synchronizes the four thrust levers as shown between ...
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Does a turboshaft's exhaust provide any thrust?
See the below figure. Does the exhaust gas coming out through the nozzle have any force?
If the exhaust gas has force then how is it controlled by the helicopter?
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Can a Bombardier CRJ derate the takeoff thrust?
I have recently been flying a Bombardier CRJ 700 in a simulator and wondered how to derate the engines for takeoff.
I know how the takeoff thrust derating is selected in Airbus and modern Boeing ...
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How to design a near vertical take off airplane?
How to design a near vertical take off airplane, conceptually?
Say I have an airplane, similar to a Zenith 701. Say that it has a stall speed of 50 mph and a wing area of 60 sq ft, and it weighs ...
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Why limit the bank angle to 10° when passing through FL300 on a B737-800?
When passing thought FL300, we are instructed to set the bank angle limiter on the MCP to 10°.
I know one of the reasons for this is that we are thrust limited so maneuver capability decreases.
Are ...
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Is there any equation on propeller thrust that takes into account the number of blades [duplicate]
I had a look at both
What is the equation for calculating static thrust?
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Is there any equation to bind velocity, thrust and power?
However, it does not mention how much would the thrust be ...
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How can lift be less than thrust that is less than weight? [duplicate]
Physics in schools teaches two contradictory and mutually exclusive things:
That the upward lift force on an airplane in flight equal its weight (Lift = Weight = Mass x Gravity). This is based on ...
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How does landing gear affect thrust on a light twin-engine airplane?
I'm working on my commercial multiengine rating. And I got this question from my examiner, and I answered: landing gear produces penalty drag, so it decreases thrust.
But the examiner says this isn'...
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Why isn't there some optional setting that can precisely move thrust levers jointly?
In the screenshots beneath (top, bottom), Capt Juergen Raps is fidgeting the A380's 4 thrust levers with his fingers to align them to the same thrust position.
Isn't it unproductive for pilots to ...
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Why does the thrust limit page display the thrust in percentage (« % ») and not in pound-force?
When the pilot sets the takeoff engines thrust on the Flight Management thrust limit page that displays on the CDU (or MCDU) interface, the selection will finally show as a percentage.
The direct ...
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How does an operator change the engine thrust rating?
If, for example, an operator has a Boeing 737-800 with CFM56-7B engines set at a 22K thrust rating, but the next operator wanted to operate the engines at 24K thrust rating, what would they need to ...
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How to measure thrust produced from combustion chamber of Gas Turbine Engine?
I'm conduction a scale model experiment of thrust production in combustion chamber by using different types of fuel source.
Comparing the thrust produced by using hydrogen gas, kerosene and petrol.
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Can the maximum thrust of a turbofan engine be estimated by its intake diameter?
I have no clue in aeronautics. How to estimate maximum thrust (at any rated condition, such as altitude, speed, rotation velocity- any given condition) by intake diameter?
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Jet engine throttle-down time
Apparently airline jet engines lose ~80% of their thrust within 1 second after fuel is cut. However this seems to conflict with long throttle-down times noted in another question.
This lead to a ...
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Why does a subsonic nacelle inlet have a throat before the diverging section?
Aircraft propulsion 2nd edition by SAEED FAROKHI" p.340
Aircraft propulsion 2nd edition by SAEED FAROKHI" p.123
As we can see from the image, the nacelle slightly converges towards a throat, before ...
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How does the power distribution change for a turbofan engine from being stationary to going at full speed?
I have found out that a turbofan engine of say an F-16 is producing zero power when stationary since $Power = Thrust × Velocity$. But assuming that the engine is producing the same thrust, it appears ...
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Does the P&W F100 turbofan engine of the F-16 really produce this much power?
I've been trying to calculate the power a P&W F100 engine on a F-16 is producing using some of the available data on thrust and velocity and I ended up with a number that I want to confirm. Here's ...
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Compute Thrust from RPM and Induced Velocity
I'm attempting to calculate the difference in thrust in a secondary propeller operating in the wake behind a primary propeller, in the context of a trailing quad-copter following a leading quad-copter ...
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Can hydrogen gas be an alternative fuel source for a gas turbine engine?
I want to do research for an alternative fuel source for a commercial aircraft that will reduce the cost for flights.
Will the hydrogen gas be ignited in the combustion chamber and produce enough ...
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Which propeller configuration is the one that generates the least turbulent flow in a wind tunnel?
I looked at the post here but still have some questions Why are push-propellers so rare, yet they are still around?
This is along the same idea but the answers are not too helpful either. Pros and ...
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What does it mean to “firewall” an aircraft engine?
I (think) I understand what a firewall is (at least, in a single engine aircraft where the engine is at the front of the fuselage), but what does it mean "to firewall" an aircraft's engines, as ...
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How to calculate power required to drive an isolated fan of a TurboFan engine?
If I isolate the fan from a TurboFan jet engine (specifically GE90) and power it electrically with a motor,
how much power is required for the electrical source to drive the fan to give the same ...
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What's the thrust coefficient for a convergent nozzle?
As you know, the Ideal Thrust Coefficient of convergent-divergent nozzle is calculated using this equation:
But what about a convegent nozzle? Is there any equation to calculate the Ideal Thrust ...
