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Old 24th Nov 2007, 19:33
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ETOPS773
 
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Keesje,

First of all, congratulations on the very well thought out and informative concept. I must say the renderings & especially the video look absolutely fantastic and you've created a magnificent looking aircraft.

Just a little comment or two...

I would drop the thrusting APU concept. It's a good, and logical idea, but 30,000lbs+ of thrust would be a very tall order.

A simplified afterburner / reheat system on an existing turbofan such as a GE90 would be an easier option because by it's very nature it would be mechanically simpler, and a nice little bonus would be that during it's operation, it would burn great amount of fuel, which in turn would help get the aircraft down to landing weight much quicker.

I think the ingredients should be 2 x Genx'd GE90-115 with reheat. The APU could be a fuel cell.
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