{"id":192348,"date":"2009-04-09T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/09\/airbus-looking-at-gtf-on-a-320\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:27:00","slug":"airbus-looking-at-gtf-on-a-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/09\/airbus-looking-at-gtf-on-a-320\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Looking at GTF On A-320?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/2829\/getasset.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/9722\/getassetk.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>That certainly is what this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/04\/03\/324808\/airbus-develops-wing-fairing-to-reduce-larger-engine-drag.html\">patent application filed by EADS<\/a> , which shows a modified wing-fuselage fairing that is supposed to reduce drag from the installation of a larger engine, seems to indicate.<\/p>\n<p>The problem would seem to be directly associated with the installation of the Pratt &amp; Whitney Geared Turbofan (GTF) which has a significantly higher bypass ratio, and fan size, as compared to the engine currently used on the A-320 series.<\/p>\n<p>The new fairing is the bottom of both pics.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it appears to be a sort of area ruling which accommodates the changes in air flow from a larger nacelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That certainly is what this patent application filed by EADS , which shows a modified wing-fuselage fairing that is supposed to reduce drag from the installation of a larger engine, seems to indicate. The problem would seem to be directly associated with the installation of the Pratt &amp; Whitney Geared Turbofan (GTF) which has a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}