It is noted that increasing fuel costs and the decreasing availability of fuel supplies have lead to an increase in the importance of maintaining good specific fuel consumption over the life cycle of jet engines. Attention is given to an engine diagnostics program sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center which has the objectives of identifying and quantifying the levels, trends, and causes of engine performance deterioration. It is reported that as part of the program, a series of installed engine calibrations were performed on two new Pan American World Airways 747 SP aircraft. A discussion of this specific test program and the results of the analysis of the data are presented.


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    Title :

    JT9D-7A /SP/ jet engine performance deterioration trends


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Exhibition and Conference ; 1980 ; Dallas, TX


    Publication date :

    1980-04-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English