Planefags knew first that Trump Force One (& Co.) would be the continuous dead giveaway.
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Thank goodness you don't fly or work on aircraft.
"Everything is ball bearings these days"
The flayrod's gone askew off treadle!
I'm fairly certain combustion happens in the turbine
And you would be wrong. The components are: diffuser, compressor, combustor, turbine, nozzle. It is a Brayton cycle engine. It gets complicated when you add a fan (turbofan) and have low- and high-pressure compressor and turbine stages.
I was using "turbine" as shorthand for "turbine engine", the whole thing hanging off the wing, not just the turbine stage of the unit.
Sorry. Been an aeronautical engineer for 45 years, so am imprinted with the nomenclature.
I know wikipedia is frowned upon over here, but this is a mechanical device, not history, so *shrug*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine#Types
Jet engines are referred to as turbines. Technically they are Turbofan or turbojet turbine engines depending on how the jet fuel is used to generate thrust. Almost all modern jets use turbo-fan turbine engines. A series of turbine blade wheels work with stationary stator blades to compress a fuel / air mixture to very high pressure, a series of igniters ignite this highly compressed mixture of compressed fuel/air and the combustion creates the energy to spin a powerful fan and generate thrust. Each engine on a jet or jet-prop airplane is indeed a turbine. I fly jets for a living.
Except that you got the components confused in order. The fan and compressor are at the front, before the combustor, and the turbine(s) are after. The basic idea is correct, though.
But the Dassault Falcon and the Boeing 727 have two external engines and on internal engine. But you are right that there is no ridiculous drive shaft arrangement.
No. The center engine is in the tail behind the passenger compartment. What you see at the base of the vertical stabilizer is the inlet, which has an S-shaped duct that leads to the engine. The Lockheed L-1011 has a similar arrangement.
I did a lot of business travel on the 727 and I like it greatly. Saddened to see it retired. It was designed for short-field operation and has the most amazing triple-slotted flap system you could ever want to see. When it deploys, it looks like the rear half of the wing is coming apart. Three engines gave it plenty of takeoff oomph. Its market niche was taken over by the later, larger versions of the 737.