The General Electric GE36 was an experimental aircraft engine, a hybrid between a turbofan and a turboprop, known as an unducted fan (UDF) or propfan...
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was developed into the larger F414 turbofan, as well as the experimental GE36 civil propfan. GE developed the F404 for the F/A-18 Hornet, shortly after...
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February 1984 to continue its research, eventually building the experimental GE36. One of the major innovations for the engine were its carbon fiber composite...
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Variable stability, thrust vectoring (Redesignated X-62 Vista in 2021) General Electric GE36 testbed 1986 – Propfan engine testbed on a modified Boeing 727 Goodyear...
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GE Aerospace (redirect from General Electric Aircraft Engines)
General Electric Company, doing business as GE Aerospace, is an American aircraft engine supplier that is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio, outside Cincinnati...
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shp/lb (11.2 kW/kg) Aviation portal Related development CFE CFE738 General Electric GE36 Comparable engines Allison T406 Honeywell T55 Pratt & Whitney PW150...
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an MD-81 was used as a testbed for propfan engines, such as the General Electric GE36 and the Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX. By mid-1989, it was clear...
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CFM International RISE (category General Electric aircraft engines)
(planned) Aviation portal Related development CFM International LEAP General Electric GE36 Rolls-Royce RB3011 Related lists List of aircraft engines Norris...
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Progress D-27 (section General characteristics)
Kuznetsov NK-93 Related development Progress D-236 Comparable engines General Electric GE36 Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX Rolls-Royce RB3011 Related lists...
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its desire to be a 7J7 launch customer. On August 20, 1986, the General Electric GE36 UDF engine was tested in flight for the first time, on a Boeing...
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shuttle training aircraft later that year. The GE36 Unducted Fan (UDF), from American engine maker General Electric (GE) with 35-percent participation from French...
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of the aft fuselage mounting of the 7J7's baseline engine, the General Electric GE36 unducted fan. Airbus was also considering the SuperFan for a 175-seat...
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which employs much of what is described above. In the 1980s the General Electric GE36 Unducted Fan (UDF), which actually flew on a McDonnell Douglas MD-80...
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new propfan powerplants. On May 19, 1987, McDonnell Douglas tested General Electric Aviation's unducted fan (UDF) engine in flight for the first time on...
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used as the material in the cylinders of the engine. 1985: The General Electric GE36 propfan runs for the first time. 1989: VTEC was introduced as a...
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flight tests. The 578-DX would follow in testing the competing General Electric GE36 UDF engine, which was scheduled for 75 hours of flight tests on...
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Kuznetsov NK-93 (section General characteristics)
Kuznetsov NK-12 Kuznetsov NK-92 Comparable engines Europrop TP400 General Electric GE36 IAE SuperFan Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX Progress D-27 / Progress...
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(now renamed to the Progress design bureau) propfan resembling the General Electric GE36 UDF, and not the propfan it had been working on. However, the Central...
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the fan airflow. An aft-fan configuration was later used for the General Electric GE36 UDF (propfan) demonstrator of the early 1980s. In 1971 a concept...
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Progress D-236 (section General characteristics)
D-36 Lotarev D-136 Progress D-436 Progress D-27 Comparable engines General Electric GE36 Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX Rolls-Royce RB3011 Related lists...
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IAE SuperFan (section General characteristics)
of the aft fuselage mounting of the 7J7's baseline engine, the General Electric GE36 unducted fan. (The 7J7, not the A340, was actually IAE's primary...
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Europrop TP400 Kuznetsov NK-12 Kuznetsov NK-93 Comparable engines General Electric GE36 Progress D-27 Progress D-236 Pratt & Whitney/Allison 578-DX Related...
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List of aircraft engines (section General Electric)
General Electric CTF39 General Electric GE1 General Electric GE4 General Electric GE1/10 General Electric GE15 General Electric GE27 General Electric GE36 (UDF)...
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Hispano-Suiza inline engines Renault inline engines CFM International CFM56 General Electric GE36 (mock-up) Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 Snecma Atar Snecma M88...
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2020. Built around the M88's core, the fan blades are slower than the 1980s GE36 due to the reduction gear, lowering noise and the fan can be mounted at the...
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wind-shear stall protection capabilities, later equipping the A320. In 1988, the GE36 propfan-powered McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was demonstrated as a precursor for...
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does not include the free power turbine assembly. As an example, the General Electric T64 is a single-spool design that uses a 14-stage axial compressor;...
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