A Pic of a B-1b engine

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I was digging through old photos and found one your aircraft buffs might enjoy. it is a pic of me standing in front of a GE F101-102 engine out of a B-1b. I used to work on them in a former life
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if you guys want to see more i have a ton of c-130 pics.
 
wow... a big turbine.

speaking of big, we got a 38 MW ship service rolls royce in the other day. The module was on a trailer with 72 tires!

JMH
 
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Originally posted by JHZR2:
wow... a big turbine.

speaking of big, we got a 38 MW ship service rolls royce in the other day. The module was on a trailer with 72 tires!

JMH


Is that for one of those aluminum navy ships ?
 
It's rated at 30,000 lbs of thrust. max fuel consumption is 70,000 lbs/hr, that's roughly 10,000 gallons. that's in full augmentor though (afterburner). it weighs 6,000 lbsand thier are 4 mounted to the aircraft. it's max core speed (n2 or gas generator speed for those who don't speak GE) is about 16,000 rpm. it has dual compressors and dual turbines. it was the first augmented turbofan engine GE developed. the f16, b2, kc-135, and several other comercial aircraft are powered by variations of it's core and turbine design.

if you look closely at the picture you see a Y shaped tube on the side of the engine, that's anti-icing bleed air (not very interesting), just below it is a tube about 2" in diameter, that is the fuel tube for the augmentor only! the main fuel inlet at the front of the boost pump is about 5" in diameter. it has 3 fuel pumps.

sorry no other pics of the B-1b.
 
Thanks for posting the picture. I worked on the B-1B program since the beginning when it was Rockwell (now Boeing). I helped design the inlets to those engines. We hope to keep them flying for many more years.
 
that is a standard air force issue 3100 trailer. most fighter engines the AF uses have adapters to fit on this style of trailer. they don't use castors for road transport becuase they have no shock absorbtion and it will distroy the carbon seals. castors are only allowed on equipment inside the shop on smooth floors.
 
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Originally posted by tom slick:
It's rated at 30,000 lbs of thrust. max fuel consumption is 70,000 lbs/hr, that's roughly 10,000 gallons. that's in full augmentor though (afterburner). it weighs 6,000 lbsand thier are 4 mounted to the aircraft. .

To put that another way, it would be like having a 300 HP LT1 that only weighed 60 Lbs
(I know thrust to HP is more involved than that, it's just a generalization...)
 
If someone will host the pictures I'd be happy to take a few shots of some engines in various states of disassembly.
 
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Originally posted by tom slick:
i'm surprized it took 15 posts before someone mentioned that I had my gloves on!

Someone with no military background wouldn't notice. So no comments from them.

Someone with Air Force experiance would recognise you as a fellow Airman intelligent enough to improvise a pair of gloves.
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So no comments from them.

[ May 06, 2005, 04:31 PM: Message edited by: XS650 ]
 
[/QUOTE]I'll host them with my photobucket account. which engines? [/QB][/QUOTE]

I can take pictures of Pratt 2037's, 4060's, GE CF-6's and CF-34's. I might be able to get a few Rolls Royce Trent 892's hanging in the test cell. They're so big that they're rarely kept at the facility once they're built. There are probably some Aero V2500's here too.
 
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