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"Commesial Fan Motoure in French or CFM for short."
Nice try...
The HP side of the CFM56 is said to be based on the GE F101, which powered the (later cancelled) Rockwell B1A, although in the B1A it was reheated. There's a story that, during assembly of the first CFM56s at Villaroche (near Paris) in the early 1970s, the Snecma engineers were not permitted to see the interior of the requisite modules supplied by GE because the F101 was still classified.
Quote:
"Clockwise is normal, aint it??"
Yes, but only if you are standing behind the LP turbine and looking forwards!
