Fuel consumption of commercial aircraft is considered. Fuel saving and retention components for new production and retrofit of JT9D, JT8D, and CF6 engines are reviewed. The manner in which the performance improvement concepts were selected for development and a summary of the current status of each of the 16 selected concepts are discussed.


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    Title :

    Engine component improvement program: Performance improvement


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace Sci. Meeting ; 1980 ; Pasadena, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    1979-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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