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    A podded engine is a jet engine that has been built up and integrated in its nacelle. This may be done in a podding facility as part of an aircraft assembly...
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    Nacelle (redirect from Engine pod)
    in which case it is attached with a pylon or strut and the engine is known as a podded engine. In some cases—for instance in the typical "Farman" type "pusher"...
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    reduces drag and eliminates the risk of them being overstressed. The four podded engines can also be attached to the rear fuselage, necessitating a T-tail. This...
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    Twinjet (redirect from Twin-engine)
    aircraft. The first, common on large aircraft such as airliners, has a podded engine usually mounted beneath, or occasionally above or within, each wing...
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    Piper PA-47 PiperJet (category Single-engined jet aircraft)
    single-engined civilian aircraft with a podded engine located on the tail. The PiperJet was announced in October 2006, as a competitor to the twin-engined Eclipse...
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    Comets were being built. Boeing felt it had mastered the swept wing and podded engines which it saw as key technologies that would enable it to improve on...
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    podded engines held on pylons beneath the wings. Boeing stated that podded engines were selected for their passenger airliners because buried engines...
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  • housing for aircraft parts such as engines, fuel or equipment Podded engine, an aero engine pre-assembled into a mounting pod (or nacelle) Nacelle (wind turbine)...
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    Boeing 707 (section Engines)
    versions produced until 1979, the 707 is a swept wing quadjet with podded engines. Its larger fuselage cross-section allowed six-abreast economy seating...
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    several similar very light jet design concepts. Most business jets use podded engines mounted on the rear fuselage with a cruciform tail or T-tail to reduce...
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    Honda HA-420 HondaJet (category Engine-over-wing aircraft)
    Honda began to study small-sized business jets in the late 1980s, using engines from other manufacturers. The Honda MH01 turboprop used an all-composite...
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  • Look up -pod, POD, pod, or pod- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pod or POD may refer to: Post Office Department of the United States Pod (fruit),...
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    1960s. Its configuration is unique for this type of aircraft, with four podded engines underneath a low wing. It is the only airplane built by McDonnell Aircraft...
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    North American XB-70 Valkyrie (category Six-engined jet aircraft)
    engine layout; the NAA design arranged its six engines in a semi-circular duct under the rear fuselage, while the Boeing design used separate podded engines...
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    and brand name owned by ABB, it is sometimes used as a generic term for podded propulsion units manufactured by other companies. In the conventional azimuth...
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    Convair and Douglas aircraft jet airliner designs, with widely spaced podded engines underslung on pylons beneath a swept wing, proved to be the most common...
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    slight sweepback, increased aspect ratio and winglets. The overwing podded engines were expected to generate 6,400 pounds-force (28 kN) of thrust. Designed...
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    the world to use podded engines suspended from pylons beneath and ahead of the wing, on the experimental Ilyushin Il-22 four-engined jet bomber of 1946...
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  • the new, more powerful fighter, designated as the I.Ae. 48, with two podded engines under the wings and intended to reach Mach 2.2.(2700 km/h). However...
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    Cessna Skymaster (category Twin-engined push-pull aircraft)
    American twin-engine civil utility aircraft built in a push-pull configuration. Its engines are mounted in the nose and rear of its pod-style fuselage...
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    Group's Azipod was the first product using this technology. The most powerful podded thrusters in use are the four 21.5 MW Rolls-Royce Mermaid units fitted to...
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    turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the power-producing...
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    turbojet engines, 30° wing sweep, and an internal cabin diameter of 11 feet (3.35 m) to allow five-abreast seating. The use of podded engines was seen...
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    Airliner (section Engines)
    Douglas DC-8 Sud Aviation Caravelle – the first jetliner with rear podded engines, the configuration of the more widespread Douglas DC-9 Boeing 737 –...
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    FMA I.Ae. 37 (category Single-engined jet aircraft)
    a new, more powerful fighter, designated as the I.Ae. 48, with two podded engines under the wings and intended to reach Mach 2.2 (2,700 km/h). However...
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    consists of two pods mounted on the orbiter's aft fuselage, on either side of the vertical stabilizer. Each pod contains a single AJ10-190 engine, based on...
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    a large wing, clipped, with two separate podded engines and a twin tail. The 'tunnel' between the two engines, as on the F-14 Tomcat, acts both as an additional...
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  • Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft (category Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of Germany)
    109-500 – RATO-podded Starthilfe, self-contained booster rocket engine unit Walter HWK 109-509 – Germany's primary aircraft rocket engine Gotha Go 242 –...
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    Boeing 737 (section Engines)
    featured podded engines on the aft fuselage, a T-tail as with the 727, and five-abreast seating. Engineer Joe Sutter relocated the engines to the wings...
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