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The 757-300, the stretched and longest version of the Boeing 757 variants, entered service with Condor in 1999. [71] With a length of 178.7 ft (54.5 m), the type is the longest single-aisle twinjet ever built, [ 71 ] coming in just shorter than the 187.4 ft (57.1 m) quad-jet DC-8-61/63 .
The first German jet engines built during the Second World War used a mechanical APU starting system designed by the German engineer Norbert Riedel.It consisted of a 10 horsepower (7.5 kW) two-stroke flat engine, which for the Junkers Jumo 004 design was hidden in the engine nose cone, essentially functioning as a pioneering example of an auxiliary power unit for starting a jet engine.
Boeing C-32A Ilyushin Il-96M The Pratt & Whitney PW2000 , also known by the military designation F117 and initially referred to as the JT10D , is a series of high-bypass turbofan aircraft engines with a thrust range from 37,000 to 43,000 lbf (160 to 190 kN).
A C-32A dwarfed by a VC-25A at Paris-Orly Airport, 2009. The C-32A is the military designation for the Boeing 757-2G4, a variant of the Boeing 757-200, a mid-size, narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner—that has been modified for government VIP transport use, including a change to a 45-passenger interior and military avionics. [1]
The first Boeing airliner with EICAS was the Boeing 757. The Boeing 747 has EICAS since the 747-400. No version of the Boeing 737 has EICAS. The Boeing 717 has CFDS, as it was originally a McDonnell Douglas product. The Embraer ERJ family and the Embraer E-Jet family have EICAS. The Bombardier CRJ and the Bombardier CSeries have EICAS.
Investigators have recovered a piece of fuselage that tore off the left side of an Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon, on Friday that ...
The wing of the Boeing jet owned by former President Donald Trump struck a parked plane at a Florida airport Sunday morning, the FAA said Tuesday. Trump’s Boeing 757 clipped parked plane after ...
Airlines commonly order aircraft with special features or options, but Boeing builds certain models specifically for a particular customer. The Boeing 707-138B was a shortened-fuselage, long-range model only sold to Qantas. The Boeing 757-200M was a single-example model built for Royal Nepal Airlines (now called Nepal Airlines). This plane ...