Wait aren’t all airplane wings bid inspired?
Plot twist: And they’ll still pack their passengers like sardines.
How many blades do you have to add to a turboprop before it’s promoted to an open turbofan and touted as a major new innovation?
Based on my image search engineering, the answer to your question is 2.
Based on my one semester of air breathing propulsion that I took 25 years ago, I’m guessing there is more going on inside the turbine part of the engine that both allows sustainable fuels that current turbofans can’t and also allows compression ratios at lower fan speeds that allows an open fan with fewer blades. Again, I barely passed air breathing propulsion back then and haven’t used ANY of that knowledge since, so I’m mostly talking out of my ass.
Aviation peaked with the Spruce Goose, AKA the Birch Bitch, AKA the H-4 Hercules. Been downhill ever since…
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Never heard it called the birch bitch.
I guess this is why so many boeing airplanes have been falling out the sky nowadays. They forgot and accidentally based their aiplanes on land dwelling vetrebrates.
Lol.
Lead engineer: “oh did you say bird, okay I thought you said bear.”
To me “next generation” and propellers just don’t mix, but I know nothing. Just want my jetpack.
So not the picture in the thumbnail but a generic jet
