Talk:General Electric GEnx
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Composite fan blades? I guess that means carbon-carbon. Is that a wise idea after RCC failed so tragically on STS Columbia? 195.70.32.136 10:44, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
No they are made from carbon fibers in an epoxy matrix. This is a good reference for technical data: [1]
[edit] Museum airplane with museum engines having museum thrust.
Hello all! The unit of jet thrust is kilonewtons (kN). Wikipedia looks retro with all of its museum units like "lbf", which 97% of the world population has no clue about.
The weirdest thing is anglo-saxon units are just unofficial variants of the SI system. All pound, feet, etc. are actually derived from the Paris SI measurements, because no comparable precision etalons exist in the anglosaxon world. 91.83.16.172 (talk) 12:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
