Jet Lag

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 05/07/2015 at 05:28 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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After two weeks in Asia we came home last night. We were a full 12 hours off home time. Went to bed at 11 and woke up at 4:20. Ah, jet lag.

bob and john > f86sabre 05/07/2015 at 06:16

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I’m in europe from the 2nd to the 17th...I’m looking forward to dealing with jet-lag when I get back.

wer eyou on vacation or work?

f86sabre > bob and john 05/07/2015 at 06:50

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Both. Over there for a conference and added some time off.

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 05/07/2015 at 07:23

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Welcome home! And now that picture has me reading about the Avro Jetliner. I had never heard of it.

f86sabre > ttyymmnn 05/07/2015 at 07:56

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Me neither. Kind of cool looking.

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 05/07/2015 at 08:12

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Apparently, it’s the aircraft that gave us the word “jetliner.”

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > f86sabre 05/07/2015 at 09:10

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This sent me down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia. Centrifugal flow jets are just flat out weird things. This one is missing some of the ducting between the compressor and combustion chamber. It is easy to see why axial flow jets came to rule the skies. I can’t get my head around the diameter a centrifugal flow engine would need to produce the thrust a modern turbofan makes.

“Rolls Royce Derwent Jet Engine”. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -