Dec 282009
Aug 122009
So, I was bored and something sparked the idea to look at GE turbofans. Sure, Pratt & Whitney make some awesome ones too, but I like GE, and I’ve seen the plant in SC that makes them, so GE it is.

Now what could I do with a GE90-115B you ask? Well, it produces about 127,900 lbf (568,9 kN) of thrust…so roughly 111,526 HP… Sure, it weighs just over 9 tons…but that’s a lot of power…
So, lets build some massive chassis to set it on, put some sort of cabin on, and a massive fuel tank… Turbofan car-thing?
I think it would somewhat work, but I don’t know if it’d be possible to survive… The G-force from that kind of acceleration is probably way over the lethal threshold… It’d be awesome to try though…