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Old 7th Feb 2012, 22:01
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Ther are an awful lot of paper engines that never found a home. It's pretty hard to make comparisons between engines.

Along the way the paper engine actually morphs into development hardware with many chaqnges depending on the whims of the guy with the pocketbook (mostly Uncle Sam). After the entrance into the commercial jet age a designer might even produce drawings that mimic actual for sale hardware for commercial service, hence some of these engines that get the JT prefixes in the P&W world.

The development hardware lots of times starts with some modules (compressor, burner, Turbine, afterburner) that are tested separately against possible combinations that might sell. Thus a collection of like modules might end up with an afterburner or not depending on the mission it might fit. The hardware still in the P&W museum in East Hartford only mimics a few of these combinations. Many other combinations have already been sold for scrap.

I've heard stories of stuff 50-60 years ago of giant burners that were 2-3 times the diameter of the high turbine. I never saw any signs of these on an aircraft.
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