{"id":197248,"date":"2008-02-20T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/20\/easyjet-wants-more-work-on-open-rotor-engines\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:34:00","slug":"easyjet-wants-more-work-on-open-rotor-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/20\/easyjet-wants-more-work-on-open-rotor-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"EasyJet Wants More Work on Open Rotor Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also called advanced turboprop or unducted fan, these engines promise a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/02\/20\/221669\/easyjet-maintains-pressure-for-open-rotor-engines-in-2015.html\">30%+ increase in efficiency<\/a>, more for short hops, which is EasyJet&#8217;s bread and butter, so it&#8217;s challenging the engine and airframe manufacturers to get it working on a narrow body airliner.<\/p>\n<p>The technology works, it was demonstrated over 20 years ago, but the issues are complexity, reliability, and noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also called advanced turboprop or unducted fan, these engines promise a 30%+ increase in efficiency, more for short hops, which is EasyJet&#8217;s bread and butter, so it&#8217;s challenging the engine and airframe manufacturers to get it working on a narrow body airliner. The technology works, it was demonstrated over 20 years ago, but the issues &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-197248","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\/197248"}],"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=197248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}