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Maybe saving money, by showing it in part military, part civvy, colour schemes ?
Unless its a nod to the schemes painted on protoype cars being tested to try to break up the outline to make it harder for rivals to see details.Maybe saving money, by showing it in part military, part civvy, colour schemes ?
It maximises cabin volume with not having the engines mounted to the fuselage. Having them over the wing rather than under it also allows shorter undercarriage.I guess the engines get good protection from FOD, but is there any other reason for the overwing pylons y'all might know about?
It maximises cabin volume with not having the engines mounted to the fuselage. Having them over the wing rather than under it also allows shorter undercarriage.
I worked on the test flight program on the first Honda Jet. We hung a pylon on the side of a B727 so Honda flight test engineers could test their engine. The company I worked for sucked but the project was great. Got a lot of accolades from the FAA and the chief engineer was a great guy.
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This was from Popular Mechanics May 1996
I was once on a DC-9 from Orlando to Reagan National and was seated all the way back where the window seat had only a view of the side of the Left engine.
I thought, "They really ought to give the people in these seats some engine instrumentation so that we could decide if we need to run forward."
Funny you say that. I've read of a couple of airliner crashes where most of the survivors were seated at the rear -- Delta 191 at D/FW comes to mind immediately. It gave rise to the idea that the smoking section in the rear was the safest spot on the plane.