New Nacelles More Efficient But Harder To Maintain

Credit: AFI-KLM E&M
Under the hood, an engine family usually incorporates similar architecture, tweaked to different power settings. In the case of the CFM Leap 1C, however, the “hood” itself provides an important distinction, since the nacelle of the Comac C919 will be part of the first “integrated propulsion system”...

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