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“The Silicon Valley guys seem to have the attention span of 3-year-olds.”
Or it could be that the FAA and other airline regulatory bodies around the world (especially in UK and Europe) keep innovations from happening, and so development times can be long.
30 years. I do wonder if that is true. Did they actually developed it under a time period of 30 years. or do they mean it more in a way that it is a continuation of previous models.
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Or it could be that the FAA and other airline regulatory bodies around the world (especially in UK and Europe) keep innovations from happening, and so development times can be long.
If we could distribute a new gear design which fixes flaws in some over-the-air patch it'd be a lot easier to iterate and improve. Selling thousands of engines too soon and realizing they all suffered from a critical engineering issue could bankrupt your company. There's a lot on the line!
> what may be most remarkable about the engines is that they took almost 30 years to develop. That’s about 15 times as long as the gestation period of an elephant Who the hell is running their analogy department?!? "Thirty years! That's a big number! We need some kind of comparison that will instantly give the reader perspective. Of course, in this, as in so many other things, the answer lies in pachydermian pregnanc…
I thought the next example was even more inane. It goes on to say: "and unimaginably longer than it takes to pop out a smartphone app".
30 years. I do wonder if that is true. Did they actually developed it under a time period of 30 years. or do they mean it more in a way that it is a continuation of previous models.
I wonder if instead of gearing a single large fan, you could just remove the fan from the turbine altogether, add a much larger alternator, and power several large electric external fans from each turbine? That would give you more fan area than you can get with a geared turbofan, optimal fan speed for efficiency, redundancy in case one of the fans suffered damage, allow cross-routing of power between turbines if one…
> what may be most remarkable about the engines is that they took almost 30 years to develop. That’s about 15 times as long as the gestation period of an elephant Who the hell is running their analogy department?!? "Thirty years! That's a big number! We need some kind of comparison that will instantly give the reader perspective. Of course, in this, as in so many other things, the answer lies in pachydermian pregnanc…
I thought the next example was even more inane. It goes on to say: "and unimaginably longer than it takes to pop out a smartphone app".