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Originally Posted by NJA_Capt  I have forgotten the actual numbers but the high altitude numbers are far from 50/50. Low altitude thrust comes from the fan and high altitude thrust comes from the turbine section. At FL510, there is almost no thrust coming from the fan section on the AE3007 (5:1). All practical thrust is from the turbine section. At sea level almost all thrust is from the fan section. |
Well, a CFM was close to 50/50 and the JTD15-B is about 40/60 (according to SimCom). Those are run in the high to mid 30s.