Any Older Jet Engines Still Airborne?
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Any Older Jet Engines Still Airborne?
Are any of the early generation jet engines still flying on anything? So am thinking Olympus, Conway or Spey?
Presumably the last Olympus powered plane was the historic Vulcan and Conway would have been the RAF VC10s....both types now grounded in the last 3 years. But any Spey powered frames still flying...either civil or military?
Presumably the last Olympus powered plane was the historic Vulcan and Conway would have been the RAF VC10s....both types now grounded in the last 3 years. But any Spey powered frames still flying...either civil or military?
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Still some Gulfstream IIs and IIIs flying I believe.
It's interesting that the Venom and Vampire have engines made by the airframe manufacturer. Are there any other manufacturers who produced engines?
JT's 707-138B with JT3B's may do one more flight to a museum
Meridiana still use MD80s' with JT8's and a couple of old baby dc9's still fly in East Africa
Meridiana still use MD80s' with JT8's and a couple of old baby dc9's still fly in East Africa
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Bristol were an airframer and originally made the Olympus and Pegasus (OK, Bristol-Siddeley) - but not sure either of these flew in any of their own aircraft.
Bristol is the other obvious producer of both airframes and engines in the UK and one could list Junkers in Germany, Fiat in Italy and Wright and Curtiss in the USofA
Indeed not, but now that the thread seems to have drifted into turboshafts and turboprops, Bristol's Proteus certainly did power a Bristol aircraft.
For example, the Bristol B.170 Freighter powered by Bristol Hercules engines.
C130 (not -J) uses the Allison engine, dates back to the 50s.
I heard the core core of the IAE v2500 is the same as a JT-8, if that counts?
and not airborne, but a lot of the Jets you are asking about (Conway, Olympus) are still used in marine / ground applications, for power generation or marine propulsion.
I heard the core core of the IAE v2500 is the same as a JT-8, if that counts?
and not airborne, but a lot of the Jets you are asking about (Conway, Olympus) are still used in marine / ground applications, for power generation or marine propulsion.