{"id":193697,"date":"2008-11-23T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/23\/interesting-regulatory-take-on-open-rotor-engines\/"},"modified":"2008-11-23T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T11:24:00","slug":"interesting-regulatory-take-on-open-rotor-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/23\/interesting-regulatory-take-on-open-rotor-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Regulatory Take on Open Rotor Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic60.picturetrail.com\/VOL1689\/10590113\/19957526\/325958362.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>Are they unducted fans, are they high tech propellers, or are they, as one wag put it, a bunch of bananas whirling around.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, and it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/21\/319198\/bird-strike-emerges-as-open-rotor-concern.html\">regulatory authorities are in a similar conundrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations if they are classed as turbofan blades are stricter, and thus the would add more weight, and the regulations if they were classed as a propeller.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a non-trivial issue that needs to be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are they unducted fans, are they high tech propellers, or are they, as one wag put it, a bunch of bananas whirling around. I don&#8217;t know, and it appears that regulatory authorities are in a similar conundrum. The regulations if they are classed as turbofan blades are stricter, and thus the would add more weight, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193697"}],"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=193697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}