Originally Posted by Floppy Link
10.entry doors electric up and over thing
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12. Bigger engines
13. For manual start valve closure the "volunteer" has to lie down under the engine rather than fish around through a flap on the side.
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15. Thrust measured by EPR (757) and N1 (767) (- on the engines I was used to...)
#10. Not necessarily so - I believe this is a customer option. I have yet to work on a 767 that has electric doors (I am familiar with Monarch, Zoom, Britannia, and Silverjet). The ones I that have worked on, activating the handle lifts the door part of the way, a loaded spring then assists manual movement of the door the rest of the way. It would have been better of just stating that the 757 doors open outwards, while the 767 slide inwards and upwards.
#12. Depends on engine type. RB211 engined 757/767s would be about the same size I think (hazarding a guess as I have only worked the E4s and not the H/G's)
#13. Again depends on engine type.
#15. Engine type yet again. RR's (and PW's I think - haven't worked those so probably wrong - going by hearsay from years ago) use EPR on the 767. GE's use N1.