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  • Imagine if that thing turned on....

  • did that engine just take a drug test?

  • Pretty fancy looking rig for what amounts to a hose.

  • that fat guy got the plane's poop!

  • I didnt even know they did things like this to jet engines, learned something new today.

  • The guy at 1:56 is like "Shit im staying in here!"

  • That guy sounds right like Cleveland out of Family Guy.

  • @shaunsprogress And almost looks like Cleveland...

  • Here is an easier, cheaper way to wash jet engine, land and speed above sea till water penetrates engine as airplane float-speed.

  • those engines seem small but if you're close the're look to be real hudge

  • very good video

  • sweet

  • and then give full power!!

  • wow that is so cool

  • why go to the plane wash when you can just fly around in the rain?

  • Thats how they make the coffee on board.

    It tastes nearly the same.

  • So, this process is used on an idling engine...what does this do: does it decoke the turbine blades and turbine housing? I can see the benefits in that, definitely. Are any other systems improved?

  • @SenorSpode I don't think they ever pushed the fuel levers forward, Looks as if they just used the air pressure generated from the APU to spin the engine as if it were a starting cycle. Then as the engine spun, they sprayed chemicals to clean out the N1-N2 compressors and all the other engine parts, then released the pressure valve. If the engine were Idling, there would have been alot more heat and steam coming from the rear exit portion of the engine.

  • @FujiR500 Id say your right, looks like there just spooling on Pneumatic air from the APU...

  • @FujiR500 So they put the starter switch continuous or flight and just left the fuel cut off off?

  • @scotplane Basically. They spin the compressor cores using compressed air. It takes roughly 600psi to fully start one of these engines. All they did here in this video was initiate the start cylce minus the fuel pump switches and throttle advance. If you have enough air, you could spin it all day long like this and nothing would ever happen without adding fuel. You'd get heat from the engine because the air is being compressed, but no combustion or super heated gases, which makes this possible,

  • @FujiR500 Great if the hangers cold! XD

  • the swirl painted on the propeller in the engine really entertained me x]

  • This system eliminates the nausea experienced by the older method of having a man inside with a sponge.

  • Washing my dog would have been more interesting.

  • How does this save "save on fuel and cut carbon emissions."?

    

  • @Pooshooter5k more dirt=more weight=more fuel need to power plane=more carbon emissions.

  • @Pooshooter5k It gets carbon off the engine parts that interferes with airflow.

  • @flanksteak2 Does it same more fuel or cut more emissions then a non environmentally friendly wash? Is this just how they wash them? I though the big deal was that they are using a new method but maybe I’m misunderstanding. They claim they will same 20 mil in fuel. I appreciate your explination.

  • @Pooshooter5k The reduced emissions and fuel consumption are a result of the washing. Engines are not normally washed unless they are going to be serviced. The crux is that they have a new system and are going to wash the engines more frequently.

    The "environmentally friendly" part is emphasized as sidebar.

    The wash itself is being advertised as better than the old style wash systems because it recycles the water and traps the contaminants being washed out of the engine.

  • @flanksteak2 Ok thank you for the clarification. I thought they were washed regularly anyway.

  • Inside the engines are tiny mexicans. They spin the fan. Every so often one dies and falls into the high pressure blades, and must be washed out. You can tell cause the wash water is brown. hahahaha

  • @madisonelectronic How is that remotely funny?

  • Why don't they just run a line directly from the engine to the on-board coffee maker?

  • I take it that's with the engine starter engaged but not the fuel, right?

  • @jsd23 Yep, ignition is disabled and the fuel switch is in cutoff so no fuel is entering inside the engine.

  • Ha! i bet on regular washings it's two guys with a garden hose! This is just publicity BS!!!

  • Hey while that guy cleans the engine someone else should repair the cracks in all those SouthWest planes. Worst airliner.

  • when the engine is spinning at that speed at 2:12 is even a small jet blast being pushed out of the back?

  • @infernodood3 Its about as strong as a big gust of wind, you can do simple leak checks standing by the engine with it running like that.

  • @infernodood3

    Nope.

  • Okay, First off they are motoring the engine. This is not for the fan you see at the front of the engine. it's for the CORE of the engine. That fan produces 80 percent of the thrust but it's spun by the low pressure turbine at the rear which is spun by the high pressure turbine from the core of the engine with the combustions. Motoring the core is spinning probably about 20-25 percent RPM. Also the engines are designed to throw stuff outside and around the core.

  • This is why they use this specially designed sprayer to clean out the compressors. The engine is motored (starter provides the air to spool up the core but no fuel is added to ignite and Start the engine) and then the sprayers actually spray and clean the core. I believe there IS a mild detergent in the water.  Go google how High bypass turbofan's work and you'll see what I'm talking about.

  • i m a part of the founding family and we run and own it

  • @Thekingswa747 Yeah ok wanna run some more bull shit

  • Isnt it a CFM56 7B?? With the gearbox on the left side? Thats why the engine inst round!

  • WTF

  • looks like bat food..

  • lol at 32 listen closely theres a chicken clucking

  • @midnightrider1233 you are silly =P

  • @midnightrider1233 Nope that's just a chicken-head girl giggling

  • @midnightrider1233 Yeah she did sound like a chicken.

  • this is really boring...

  • Can somebody explain to me how in the hell sitting static, at low RPM, and blasting water (unless there's a cleaner mixed in) cleans the turbines? Flying under max power, or near cruise speed, under a heavy rainstorm probably cleans the turbine just as much if not more.

  • @thechoosendude You should call Southwest right away and offer your advice. I'm sure they never thought of that.

  • why doesnt the pilot give full speed?? *-* would be way more fun... not?

  • whats that little white swirly thing on the center of the engine?

  • @rextar23 Those fans spin so fast, that a ground crew member might think its not running and would not take as much caution. Its there for safety.

  • @rextar23 its an illusion

  • I wouldn't drink this.

  • Just an expensive way to make coffee!

    

  • Just an expensive way to make coffee!

    

  • Just an expensive way to make coffee!

  • looks like chocolate

  • i never new they did that

  • Hugh No heads break off ?

    It sucks. Not only literally :)

  • ew that water must have bits of dirt, old fuel, and lots of other crap in it!

  • Did that smell like Engine Coffee to me.... ? lol

  • @jetairteam good old engine coffee to wake you up in the more.. with the jet fuel it should b able to keep awake for24 hours or more.

  • Thats 3mins of my life I will never get back!

    I fly B738's and thought this would be of interest, clearly not!

  • @davidathomas42 Well i think it should have been to u. I mean i think u really don't know on how much is involved maintaining an aircraft. So appreciate the work they do. I mean as a pilot and and LAME i know both sides and working on aircarft is so much harder then a 35knot cross wind landing. So i always thank my LAME (Licensed Aircraft Mechanical Engineer) on the 2:30am work in winter they do so i can fly my aircraft. I mean this video should show the work we do.

  • @jezz581 I know and do take an interest,, that video was neither interesting or informative.

  • @davidathomas42

    Wow your cool! can I come hang out with you while you fly 737-800's for Delta. Maybe when you get furloughed you can come fly them for Southwest..... NOT!!!!

  • @izanti lol not even close, not even the right side of the planet!, the world is bigger that the great US of A! but unfortunately you guys have such small minds unless there is an oil field there to steal you would not know where places are

  • @davidathomas42

    This coming from the guy who flies an AMERICAN built airplane. Tell you what, leave the hard engineering to us and we will keep stealing the worlds oil. You must have a really small asian dick to be bragging on youtube that you fly 737's which only leads me to believe that you don't. I fly jets two but I don't go blatantly blasting it here. So im guessing your European, British perhaps or at least a British airline? Gotta Love Government funded/started companies like AIRBUS

  • Do the TSA Zombies touch these guy's junk before they're let onto the airplanes?

  • Why so many people just standing around?

  • for all the people here if you don't know something don't post anything to start with if you didn't wash the engines there would be more carbon emissions into the air ever since the introduction of the cfm56-7 fuel cost has been cut by 25 percent with the installation of the winglets another 20 perecent by washing the engines another 15-20 percent by taxiing the with one engine another 15 perecents so you are cutting roughly 100 percent of emissions into the air airplanes don't pollute that much

  • Out of curiosity, how much improvement is this over flying routes with persistent precipitation?

  • wow it would suck for the person who thought that was a cup of coffee

  • $50 to whomever drinks that brown stuff

  • so you use an eco friendly powerwasher... to clean an engine that pollutes the air faster than you can say AL GORE? hmmm... good thinking guys!

  • and that's my friends, is how they prepare coffee to be served in the cabin....

  • nah its usin the startup system to spin the turbine no fuel is injected....

  • @Giannis25307

    Starters don't rotate the turbo fan that quickly. During start up, the fan doesn't spin that much until light off.

  • the hech?!

  • whats the point of engine washing.. just fly around in the rain

  • @hello1233280

    No washing the engine cleans out contaminates from the combustion chamber and surrounding areas increasing engine performance and an fuel consumption... approx 2%

    Basically...cleaning the engine to help burn less fuel in flight :)

  • @Spamolot2888 how much does it cost them to do the engine washing? Do they get pro's to do it or do they have people in the company that are trained and have the machinery?

  • Need to marry you **busizz4me.info**

  • hate to be the guy at 1:23

  • @will79601 Why coz u think it might SUCK u in ?

  • @smartdon007 uh yea!

  • 2:47 i guess that thing brews coffee too...

  • thos engines are so close to the ground. it would suck a wing sheer at 20 feet!

  • keep your turbines clean

  • 2:45 "Let's have a drink" lol

  • @Convict147 thats what i was thinkin.

  • and that my friends is served on-board as tea

  • Was müssen denn da 30 Leute rumstehen, nur weil da ein Triebwerk gewaschen wird?`?? xD

  • American efficiency @ it best.

    was fur arslocher ... hahaha . die sind nur faul, hast ja den fetten gesehen

    hahaha

  • @naturalyshocked all i see on this page is you trolling. get a life... wtf 5 comments on one page? really?

  • Sounds like Pratt & Whitney is taking a play from the Jiffy Lube playbook. "If we flush you engine with this stuff you will get more power and better fuel economy." In the end, it just doesn't do anything.

  • @ATLOffroad they are not selling to the dumb general public who believe any bullshit they are told without seeing scientifically proven results. the airline would test for themselves with proven positive results being obtained before committing to a multi-year deal.

  • @TheAllha I work for P&WC. Compressor washes can decrease your inter-turbine temperature by 10-15 degrees on the smaller turbines we make. It can add hundreds or thousands of hours between your Hot Section Inspections when done right and frequently enough.

  • 2:50 thats where they get your in flight coke

  • Oh, no! The engine flush guys are goin' after the airlines now that the auto industry is in the shitter. I guess Southwest is the only airline holding its' nose above water.

  • @FlyJetBlueAirways what so good about jet blue?

  • 0:26 check out that ass!!! Even the women are fat!

  • I bet that makes good colonge.

  • Interesting the information states an agreement with Pratt & Whitney when the only engines fitted to the wings of a 737 series aircraft are GE CFM56-7B series engines

  • @booman606 ECOPower by Pratt & Whitney is contracted by SWA to accomplish the engine washes. They do this for all types of engines not just Pratts.

  • @booman606 I smell sabotage by P&W! DON'T CLEAN THOSE ENGINES!!!!

  • @booman606 that's not true, if it's a 737-100/200 they have Pratt&Whitney JT8D's

  • @atvman101 Yea, thats true but seeing a -100, or -200 series 37 is such a rare sight today and I think WN has retired all their -200's

  • this is like engine flush for airplanes .. just wondering if they need it as clouds in the sky could do the job .

  • yeah, but apperently not

  • yeah that fat bloke last week n alf left alot of blood on my starboard engine. ask these fellas mate they'l sort it out.

  • if he got sucked in,,, the only thing that will remain in tact are his balls..

  • I sure do wish SWA would get some connection planes.

  • @bluepanther1011 Or some 747's. That would be sick.

  • @Musket300 Id rather have some CRJs at Bluegrass Airport

  • world biggest dishwasher, fairy washing up liquid will leave your insides clean and smooth

  • I really really hope WN decides to fly to Canada. There's tons of routes that they could fly out of YYZ, YUL, YVR, and maybe even YYC.

  • i luv the cfm56's

  • how ofter are they cleaned

  • 2:45 No wonder why my Starbucks tastes like shit!!!! 

  • All passengers, attention please! Now the plane's engine is having coffee and it'll be ready for the next flight in a minute.

  • 1.A330 is better than 767

    2. A340-600 is 100 times better and longer than 777-300 ER because of having

    four engines and better technology.

    3. A320 is 50,000 times better and safer than 737. Boeing only could produce aircraft of size of a 737. Airbus produced A319, A320, A321, A322, A310, A300-B4.

    4. And of coarse my trump card A380 beats 747-8 and entire Boeing family!

  • @fachy1981 There is no A322, and A310 and A300 are widebodies, so they are not in the same category as the 737. Furthermore, the 737 comes in five different sizes, 737-500, -600, -700, -800, -900.

  • @fachy1981 um... must be tough to use wikipedia... If you had you would find that Airbus has sold 374 A 340s... Boeing has sold 864. Guess the airlines don't seem to agree with you. The 777 ER is the longest range commercial airliner built. Guinness says so. More than 1,500 747's built. The new -8 model flys for less cost than the A 380 per passenger mile, holds just 30 less passengers, yet can fly hundreds more airports than the A380 will ever be able to. It weighs too much.

  • As to 4 engines vs. 2 I guess you know better than the FAA, thousands of hours of testing, and review of all accidents to date. If four are so important, why does Airbus make two engine aircraft? Guess those are unsafe too in your book. Read up on Boeing - from business jets for a dozen to 747s that haul 515. Boeing has built 2,3, and 4 engine aircraft, and the military still is flying the 8 engine B-52. Even with delays, The new Dreamliner is still 3 years ahead of anything Airbus offers.

  • @fachy1981 dude, you're a dope. go learn something about aviation before you use your loosely-based opinions as facts.

  • @fachy1981 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sure pal.

  • lol AA clean the engine don't need this kind of the machine.... sounds south west washing engine take too long. AA clean engine don't need those staffs. lol too many man power lol haha

  • Why is it scary to me...

    Seems like it's gonna suck me in...

  • @20jimmy200

    Because it can on full throttle if you stand too close to it. But it wasn't barely on idling power even.

  • @20jimmy200 it will.. if you go in front of it at the wrong time when the power is up... and it will chew you up and spit you out too..

  • @20jimmy200 I know right. I always think they will explode. It scares me, I could never do that.

  • @20jimmy200 its going to suck me in!!!!!!!

  • @20jimmy200

    Don't get sucked in !

  • @20jimmy200 Couldn't they have just put a guy in front of the engine spraying a hose at it and say they cleaned it? They can use sewer water and claim to be ecofriendly for recycling water.

  • @20jimmy200

    I would feel the same way

  • This comment is assigned to every1 who thinks that Airbus is a copy of Boeing. You try to design a plane that does not look like any Airbus, or Boeing. The Airbus company made the A380 in 2004, because airliners asked Airbus to do so. It was built to replace the Boeing 747. And please, today when we need to think about the environment. How could Airbus not make a plane similar to the B787? Besides, neither of them makes turboprop planes.

  • is it clean yet.

  • Coffee Machine :P

  • Does Southwest wash both or one engine????

  • @JakePeavyFan44 one everytime it has rained!!

  • As a passenger I´m concerned just about safety...until composite planes proves to be as reliable as Aluminum then I´ll be satisfied

    Until now, and following B787´s development, it has all chances of being a new kind of Mass Destruction Weapon

    Boeing had NOT performed any kind of Repetitive fatigue testing on 787´s Wings, nor measured the impact of the stresses the winbox will have to cope: that will lend to catastrophic cracking events as far as I´m concerned

  • @fachy1981 How would you know Boeing DIDN'T test anything. The A350 is still in development. And the 787 made it's first commercial flight to London. And the A350 looks like an exact copy of the 787 except the engines, and the livery.

  • @TopGun904 ...it doesnt matter that the A350 is still in development... the A380 was the big project in Europe while the 787 was being developed in the US... and now the A380 is up and running... look whos late to the party!! (B787) ... the A350 was not being developed at the same stage as the 787... and for good reason.

  • @temanatahiti Airbus headquarters is in Europe dumb nut. Boeing is in Seattle...

    Airbus thought that a bigger big-ass plane is better, just to show Boeing off with their 747. And fachy1981 started this whole thread when I just said, ''Hooray for the Boeing 737!''

  • @TopGun904 ... well done, the Airbus headquarters is indeed in Europe! Well done!! Jesus.And Boeing is actually headquartered in Chicago dumb-fuck... Airbus did not build the A380 just to size up to the Boeing 747... or else they would have built the A380 years ago?? Does that make sense to you?? They built the A380 in reply to market demands for larger aircraft for use on denser routes... Why do americans always feel threatened by Airbus? There is a whole other world outside the US you know.

  • @TopGun904 ...and When I said 'Ever heard of EADS... they are headquartered in Europe'... I was refering to the parent company of Airbus.... dumb nut. EADS also owns a variety of companies who build spacecraft, the eurofighter, missiles, satelites etc.

  • A380 rules in terms of comfort economy, technological advancements an most importantly the ability to generate profits for airlines. A380 clearly beats 747-8 in every category. It even performs better than they expected and Airbus are improving this all the time with weight saving advances. There is such a thing as being proud of Boeing, but using baseless lies and phony facts is appalling. I like all aircraft but you give credit where credit is due.

  • cool

  • Hooray for the Boeing 737.

  • @SkyWestCRJPilot Airbus is nothing more than a bunch of companies that had melted inside this pan-European consortium...some of them are older than Boeing...and even battled in WWII

    Airbus is the PIONEER in aviation composites...Boeing had zero THAT´S WHY OUTSOURCED their 787 composite building (80%) out of America: Japanese composite Wings and centerframe, Italian composite fuselage, etc...

  • @fachy1981 Most American WWII planes were Lockheed Martin, which was bought by Boeing, and there isn't a commercial airliner that wasn't made without other countries help. Boeing and Airbus get their parts and assemble them in the 'assembly' plant. But even though Airbus wanted to think bigger is better that's why they made their big-ass A380, just to make a bigger plane than Boeing. Boeing had the right idea with the 787, people want luxury.

  • @TopGun904 Guess who´s the FASTEST selling airplane ever... Airbus A350 XWB INDUSTRIAL LAUNCH: 1 December 2006. A350 XWB MONTHLY Orders : 14,42 planes Boeing 787 DelayLiner Industrial Launch: April 26, 2004. 787 DelayLiner Monthly Orders : 12,5 planes YEP...The AIRBUS A350 XWB!
  • @fachy1981 Airbus is the one copying all Boeing's ideas, when the 747-400 came out, Airbus just wanted to show them off by making the A380. When the 787 came out, Airbus "built" the A350, also with wing curve from the 787! Btw, the A350 isn't even finished yet. And all WWII Bombers (B-17s) were Boeing!!

  • @fachy1981 The 787 has sold tons more than the A350... Like about, I dunno, 892 MORE orders!! Airbus sold only 300 of your XWB planes, and those are PRE-ORDERS, no one know how it will really perform. THE PLANE ISN'T EVEN FINISHED or made it FIRST takeoff!! And the 787 engines have a specially designed engine to reduce noise. As long as Airbus didn't copy that, I'm OK.

    Boeing built 4/6 the Allied Forces WWII planes. The other 2/6 of the Allied Forces Were from other countries, and they mostly..

  • ...The rest of the Allied Forces mostly used either US or British planes.

  • @TopGun904 Airbus 140 gross orders and 22 cancellations:118 net orders.

    Boeing 129 gross orders and 89 cancellations=40 net orders.

    Get your facts straight: Airbus overtook Boeing quite long ago, 2008 included , this year competition is missed: AIRBUS Monopolizes the market.

  • @fachy1981 Who's been the leading aircraft manufacturer for almost a century? Boeing.

  • @TopGun904 Boeing is now 10 years behind Airbus. Airlines that use the 747-400 will be looking to upgrade in the near future and it seems that A380 is the more popular choice. Airlines don't just want another 747 derivative. They want a completely new airliner.

    Now with the delays of 787, it seems A350 will enter the market 2-3 years after 787 which should make for an interesting market. A350 can also take advantage of building second making A350 with slightly better technologies than 787.