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Airbus Prepares To Begin Open Fan Engine Testing On The Massive A380 (simpleflying.com)
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Airbus and CFM are set to revolutionize the aerospace industry with their groundbreaking open fan engine design on the world's first Airbus A380.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

groundbreaking open fan engine

Groundbreaking? That sure looks like a good ole turboprop to me.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is a turboprop (ish) - the 'groundbreaking innovation' they're testing is the hybrid electric/heat recovery architecture, which if it pans out could indeed be a huge advancement.

The novel engine design, which is known as SWITCH (Sustainable Water Injecting Turbofan Comprising Hybrid-Electrics), will look to demonstrate the hybrid-electric and heat-recovery turbofan technologies, with a bid to lower fuel consumption by 25%.

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