This is Pratt & Whitney’s flying testbed, on this occasion sporting the PW PurePower geared turbofan.
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Flying the Boeing 747
I came relatively late to the Boeing 747, first flying it in 1981 long after all the early teething problems with the PW JT9D-3 engines had been solved. We had two versions of the aircraft in British Airways, the 747-100 series with the more powerful PW JT9D-7 engines and the 747-200 with RR RB211-524 engines.… Continue reading Flying the Boeing 747