From kls Wed Jan 13 02:13:27 1999 Path: bounce-back Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Date: 13 Jan 99 02:13:27 From: David Lednicer Subject: Re: CFM56 on military 707s? (was: Re-engining 747s) References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Analytical Methods, Inc. Stephen H. Westin wrote: > Anyway, I think of the E-8 JSTARS aircraft as the latest and best > military 707, but it seems to wear old low-bypass turbofans (see > for an in-flight photo). My guess > is that 707's are so rare in the U.S. military compared to KC-135's > that it wasn't worth the trouble to upgrade them. The problem with the E-8 J-STARS is that putting CFM56s on them would block part of the radar scan pattern. Hence, they have to stay with lower bypass engines. ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Lednicer | "Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics" Analytical Methods, Inc. | email: dave@amiwest.com 2133 152nd Ave NE | tel: (206) 643-9090 Redmond, WA 98052 USA | fax: (206) 746-1299