Sentences with phrase «large aircraft engines»
Since the 1980s, large aircraft engines have been required to meet emission limits that have been gradually tightened over time.
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As the engine data is filtered from a larger ACARS report covering all the plane's critical flight systems and avionics, it could mean the airline has some useful clues about the condition of the aircraft prior to its disappearance.
For example, the ratio of the engine to aircraft size is analogous to the ratio of a large animal's total body size to its heart, lungs and muscles.»
The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.
Most examples of X engines are from the World War II era, and were designed for large military aircraft.
One of the area's largest employers is Lycoming, a leading maker of aircraft engines.
The cancellations in Boston are the result of a worldwide ripple effect after aviation officials over the past weekend had to temporarily shutdown large airports in Ireland, Scotland, and the Netherlands, as well as London's Heathrow Airport — Europe's busiest airport — because of the ash cloud, which poses dangers to aircraft because microscopic particles can stall a jet engine.