Venus6971 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1409 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (8 years 5 months 6 days ago) and read 1592 times:
By the way Hawk21m, E-3's never had JT3d's except for the first 2 prototypes and they were commercial built 707's (EC-137D's)with rotodomes stuck on them. The Usaf and Nato E-3's have the TF-33-PW-100A Pratt Whitney Turbo fan. It is more or less a modified JT3D from hell. No thrust reverser, turbo compressor or sucker doors on a oversized intake whick give it more 4000 pounds more thrust than a JT3D which is about 17000 pounds at sea level. Also the -100A has 2 bleed valves to help with acceleration.
Lt-AWACS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1552 times:
And the Brit 56s give them the ability to go higher and takeoff heavier (slightly) (though the AN/APY-1/2 RADAR is optimised for normal E-3B altitudes).
US E-3s will not be getting new engines any time soon, if ever, certainly not on the upcoming 40/45 mod.
Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
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Venus6971 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1409 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1521 times:
To Lt Awacs, just getting TCAS would help be great help than going across the pond under 29000 feet. After 77-0354 went down in Alaska you would have thought getting better engines would have been a priority.
Lt-AWACS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (8 years 5 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 1533 times:
29K is standard we normally don't go lower than that for Radar ops. As for TCAS each and every AWO/WD on the flight is "human" TCAS with a lot longer range than TCAS, using the radar for what we call "AWACS monitor" anytime the radar is on we tell the flight deck abot traffic.
The Yukla incident has been flown and reflown upty-frat million times in the sim, and some say newer engines wouldn't have mattered. I don't know, others say if it happened at TInker the plane could have done a go-around but the mountains at Elmo prevented that.
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