Comments on General Electric F404

Presumably you wouldn't run for an hour with the afterburners on, though.

Uh-huh.

Did you know a Honda Civic hybrid can burn up to four gallons of fuel an hour if you just keep your foot on the accelerator the whole time? Four gallons an hour, dude. That's, like, almost 100 gallons a day. At full thrust. So to speak.

Yeah, but they produce 192,000 pounds of AWESOME per hour. Woooooo!

Meh, not really. The stupid things are setting off the car alarms up here by 15th. At least the traffic gave me a good excuse to work from home on this beautiful day.

Who knew a giant mechanical dildo would use that much fuel.

I abstain from passing any judgment, as the production of jet engines (including that exact model) has been the primary employer of my hometown since the first one built in this country.

I wonder if I still have an "F404 And Proud" pin from a GE Family Day long ago.

Every time I hear these awesomes fly over the U-District I get the irrational urge to join the Air Force... even though the Blue Angels are Navy.

I'd like propose the military fly one of these over my house every morning. Beats the hell out of my alarm.

Commercial aircraft burn approximately 25,000 pounds of jet fuel an hour and estimates are that at any given time there are 10,000 commercial aircraft in the air in the United States. That means commercial aircraft in the US are burning 244,800,000 pounds of fuel per hour.

There are six Blue Angels and they are scheduled to fly 101 air shows in 2007. If each air show is 10 hours (including training runs), and they do half the show on afterburners (a huge over assumption), they burn 242,400,000 pounds of fuel.

The blue angels burn less fuel in an entire year of shows than commercial jets do in one hour.

Incidently, commerical jets burn 2,144,448,000,000 pounds of fuel in a year in the US.

What else but the Blue Angels could satisfy everybody, yes everybody, in Seattle?

People who like fun get to have fun.

People who hate fun (about 65% of Seattle), who exist only to find reasons to bitch, complain, and criticize, have all they can ask for and more in the Blue Angels. If they did ban the Blue Angels, they would next try to ban sunny days and kittens.

Eleven. Thousand. Pound. Feet. Of. Thrust. Fuckin' A!

I was just talking about GE jet engines in another thread!

Can anyone calculate "pounds of airline fuel" to gallons of normal fuel? I'm too lazy to look up how.

About 6 pounds per gallon of gas.

Jet fuel weighs about 7 pounds per gallon, auto fuel weighs about 6.25 to 6.5 depending on the the grade.

I think you mean pounds force (lbf), a measure of thrust, not pound-feet (lb-ft), a measure of torque or work.

(crickets)

OK, back to the rocket science.

We should bring back passenger airships. Blimps wouldn't use anywhere near that much gas!

@8: Sure, the only thing that could top a naval air maneuvers demonstration show would be to have the Army march into Pioneer Square and perform an urban combat maneuver demonstration.

@15 Back in 1999 they did that in Capitol Hill.

Yes, but how many pounds of fuel does it take to placate the thousands of NASCAR-watching, hillbilly rubes on any average day in Renton?

Pork rinds and tractor pulls don't seem environmentally friendly, either.

Pretty impressive that people know how to build and engineer at the limits current abilities, materials, understanding of physics allow.

Translation -> Blue Angels = Cool.

The F404 is reliable enough to and has the performance characteristics enough to use in developing prototypes such as Boeing's X-45B. It's unmanned, which saves on gas!

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/q2/nr_020523m_x45b.html

air time for most jets is 15 minutes at full afterburner with no fuel pods.

at least in combat mode.

depends on a number of factors - air density, air mixture, ambient temperature, wind speed and direction (e.g. going into the wind or with the wind).

but that's science.

meanwhile you can get twice the bang for the buck with the new versions that use HALF the fuel.

but that would be SMART ...

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