No1 Boeing 737 at Moses Lake April 2003 Part1/4

[Skybolter]

4:27 I LOVE THIS PART, OLD SCHOOL TRAINING CHECKLIST

[tom211t]

This is an awesome channel and i love the ol' tech guy :D .. Going to watch the next three vids with pleasure, thanks for these awesome vids!.

[LogicalFantasy]

I remember getting to go aboard this plane once back when it was still at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. I got to look inside the virutual cockpit (which I still see installed in this video) and see all of the computers they had at that time. It's good to see this plane again...brings back memories :-)

[ballebanan]

A big piece of airplane history. :)  Cool video!

[meregistroporquesi]

this is BY FAR, the best channel on youtube. I should bein studying right now, but I just cant keep watching these great videos.

thanks a lot for this!

[redskins5926]

This is an amazing video (along with your other videos with Bob Bogash). Thank you for taking the time to make these and post them on Youtube for us all to enjoy!

[5769JJ]

Those are turbo-jet engines....newer engines are turbo-FAN.



[glsole]

@5769JJ

If this 737-100 prototype is equipped with jt8d engines, they are low-pass turbofan engines.

[glsole]

@glsole

Ehm... "low-bypass". :-) All the -100 and -200 "orginal" b737s are fitted with jt8d engines, so I think much probably this one has (considering also that the older b727 has three jt8ds, so I strongly dubt that they intended to use turbojet engines, like the first 707 production serie, even on a prototype/preproduction one). Starting from the 70's, the developments of more fuel efficient and less noisy jet engine, with the increase of bypass ratio, implied shorter and wider engines...

[lufthansa330pilot]

why is the 737-100/ 737-200's engins so long?

[john4short]

@lufthansa330pilot , For Long range . lol ... They had to be long because the aircraft was so low , If they had put the engines that are on the new 737's like 300 - 800 , it would have scraped the Pods .... So the engines were longer and in some case provided the same amount of power as the shorter ones ... because it's length makes up for the smaller diameter

[lufthansa330pilot]

@john4short ahh yes thank you very much i have been trying to reasearch that

[glsole]

@john4short

I suggest a look to the b737 wikipedia page, about the adoption of cfm56 engines in a low ground clearance aircraft.

[john4short]

@glsole What do you mean ??? already told him why the 737 had long engines ...

:) ... I Love the 737 ... Awesome plane ....

[glsole]

@john4short

Ehm, I should have written "I *also* suggest*...". :-) (Sorry, english is not my mother language, as You will have noticed...) BTW, just to say that cfm56 engine has been obviously much more problematic to fit on the b737 than the narrowest previous jt8d engine (it could be mounted under the wing, not the cfm56, and the latter even required other modifications related to accessories positioning...).

[john4short]

@glsole No probs man , Thanks for the info ... boeing has been having problems with Engine manufacturers .... Like when they were building the 777 , There first order of planes were 36 something 777's with Pratt & Whitney engines (idk the model no) But they were built for the Boeing 777 and those things had problems , When they fitted the engine to their 747-100 Test Bed , It had an engine surge for some reason .lol . Pratt & Whitney were turned down when they offer engines 4 the 787 ...

[glsole]

@john4short

Yep, and boeing also got in trouble with R&R trent 800.. . And, AFAIK, nowadays the only choice for the b777 is the GE90. Coming back in topic, I love jt8d sound, recalls my childhood flights on dc9s. :-)

[Spy1228]

That's a real airplane !