The Dependability of The Pratt & Whitney JT8D Engine Saves the Day
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2017
- Former commercial airline pilot Lynn Rhoades recounts a dependable engine story from her time flying Pratt & Whitney-powered Boeing 737s.
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Love that Pratt & Whitney JT8-D. Nothing fancy, but built like a tank. All day every day reliable. And they sound GREAT!
The JT8D, built to last! Strong as hell and sounds AMAZING! My all time favorite engine! (If you couldn’t tell by my profile pic)
1:36 looks like the packing line at the test facility at the Middletown plant. I worked there for from '89 to '94 including two years in test. We'd receive the engines form the assembly floor and mount them on a test rig and hook all the stuff needed to run them, then strip them back down after and send them to packing. The engines were always due to be shipped out by the end of the month and if things were backed up, everyone was on the packing line. I remember working 12 hour shifts over Christmas one year making triple time. I still have some P&W emblems.
My brother worked there for 75; till about 2003. I worked there in 1978-79 on the assembly floor. I had a chance to come to Alaska and never left. I ended up doing telecommunications work all over the state and pipeline. I really' hated the factory work. I had jobs where I’d get dropped off by a helicopter on a mountain top communications sites, oil platforms and flew and all kinds of planes and jets.
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I was laid off in '94 when UT laid off 4,400 people. I worked at Groton - New London Airport for about a year at Columbia Air Services doing periodic maintenance, then moved back to my home town. I've been a Pisten Bully mechanic ever since. Super low stress job, where we're our own customers. I do work at up to 11,050' at night in blizzard conditions during the winter, but I'm a ski mountaineer and rock and ice climber anyway and it has been great raising my kids here.
@@midi510 Low stress is nice. I did communications on the Alaska Pipeline for 15 years and if they loose communications on some equipment they have to shut the line down. No stress there when it was pumping close to 2 million barrels a day.i did a two,week on shift away from home and then two weeks off. Only worked 24 weeks a year. My last 6 years I worked in the gateway earth station that does pretty much all remote communications in Alaska including military. I had jobs where I’d travel all over the state with all kinds of aircraft. Hell I even owned a 7ECA Champion for 9 years. I’ve had the crap scared out of me a few times.
I spent most of the 80s in the oil field doing work on the electronics tools they put into oil wells. When they were short handed I’d got in and work in it. My first communications job included tower work. We’d build a of couple hundred foot guyed tower at a remote winter drill site. We’d ice in the tower anchors with snow and water. They’d freeze fast. I’ve seen almost -70 without the wind a few times.
Have you ever climbed Denali?
I was working with them in Saudi Arabia from 98 until 2003 ...greater times on my live &I wish if it's back again
New engines break like glass.
'jt8d' the great
I would think that the stater blades before the first set of moving blades would stop the bird from even reaching the engine
Cheez Boi some bird mush will get through even with 1950s high AR high solidity IGVs
i don't know a lot about flying but every one who does seems to have the same understanding of how dangerous flying birds are even with our big planes. I do love to hear a story like this though where they managed to land safely fter this event. If that is the worst thing that happened in all those years flying I think she did really well. She is probably just the kind of person that could talk to me about my fear of flying (doesn't stop me) and just hearing how many hours of flight time she'd logged would reassure me about aero planes durabilitlty today.
My Dad works here!
JT8d, best engine out there, the Russian version would be the Kuznekov NK 8 and the Soloview d-30
You’ll never get that from a CFM56 or a IAE2500.
Helps that it has a front frame or IGV. Still shocked that Pratt piece of crap didn’t stall though but puffed and wheezed back to ground
Combustor cans
She has no idea
What on earth are you talking about? She was very accurate and insightful - particularly talking about tolerances. Do you have any idea what kind of gigantic angular momentum is built up in those engines and gets radically shifted when a few blades go out?