Classic British Flight Sim

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 16:20**

Great photo of this classic!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1083232/L/

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 16:22**

Cor.................! :shock:

Why are American engines so filthy??? :think:

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 17:06**

andy wrote:Cor.................! :shock:

Why are American engines so filthy??? :think:

P&W JT3C-6 Turbo-Jets with water injection mate.

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 17:07**

andy wrote:Cor.................! :shock:

Why are American engines so filthy??? :think:

Careful now Steve. You might incite a war of the nations with certain folk!!

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 17:12**

No intentions that way Eddie..............

I've just often wondered why American flying machines, both civil and military chuck out so much muck when you compare them with machines built in other country's.

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 17:21**

I knew the DC-8 and 707's were smokers or at least certain variations of them were. I never knew the prototype threw out so much sh!te though. I think the most renowned smoker of them all has to be the good old Convair 880!

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 17:24**

I've got a book all about DC8's, 707's, 880's and 990's called "Smokers".

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 18:56**

They must've been coal-fired.

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 19:12**

All the early 707s/DC8 series were water wagons - I remember seeing a
100 series 707 take of from Lagos on a particlualrly hot day and the
balck smoke hung around for hours.....even the early JT8Ds smoked
like a russian factory worker.

Leif

Posted: **26 Jul 2006, 19:59**

Oddly enough that might actually be healthier than today's engines. At least if you inhaled that lot, you'd cough and eject most of the crap again. With today's engines, the carbon particles are so small, you dont cough, you just take them into your lungs, so my aircraft propulsion lecturer said a couple of years ago :-&

Classic British Flight Sim

Talk about pollution!

Talk about pollution!