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Re: Qantas ferried an engine on the wing of a 747 (2016)

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Post by Terry_Roll » Tue, May 31, 2022, 1:51 AM UTC

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Re: Qantas ferried an engine on the wing of a 747 (2016)

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Post by inferiorhuman » Tue, May 31, 2022, 8:49 PM UTC

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Wikipedia puts the CF6 from a 747-400 at 4.27m long, 2.69m diameter. An RB-211 looks to be a little narrower and longer. Cargolux puts the biggest rectangle that can fit through the main cargo door at 3.05m x 3.10m. So yeah you could probably fit an engine in a nacelle and fixture through the main deck door on a freighter. However your big limitation will be height at either 2.44m or 3.00m depending on where on the m…

> An engine's just not going to fit inside unless you're talking about something designed for oversize cargo like the Dreamlifter (747) This is in direct conflict with literally the paragraph you posted before it. You could definitely carry the RB-211 on a standard cargo version of the 747, as you yourself stated previously. It could only fit on the main deck, but the standard 747 cargo (aka not needing the guppy) de…

Yeah there's about 0.7 m more height than a CF6. That seems like potentially not enough room for a proper fixture. In any case it's not going to fit inside a passenger 747.

Re: Qantas ferried an engine on the wing of a 747 (2016)

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Post by Terry_Roll » Tue, Jun 07, 2022, 1:09 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #93

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