Originally Posted by
JohnDixson
It will be interesting to see how the OEM’s design teams react to the 901, bringing a 100% increase in SHP from their original power plants. Beyond the hot/high envelope obvious gains, I’d look for the OEM’s to upgrade the drive trains and rotors to take full advantage of the new engines. Actually, it would be surprising if they both don’t have preliminary designs for these areas already in place, and have had them for awhile!
Indeed, I’m sure they do. I expect that a fair bit of the new capability will be used to install and haul mission equipment packages that simply didn’t exist in the 1970’s and have been eating into payload and performance margins for years. The improved fuel burn will be as welcome as anything else… “free” range and time on station.