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23: Power plant installation

Contents Page

Introduction 243
Power plant location 243

Air intakes 245

Engine and jet pipe
mountings 248

Accessories 249
Cowlings 249

POWER PLANT LOCATION
2. The power plant location and aircraft configura-
tion are of an integrated design and this depends
upon the duties that the aircraft has to perform.
Turbo-jet engine power plants may be in the form of
INTRODUCTION pod installations that are attached to the wings by
pylons (fig. 23-1), or attached to the sides of the rear
1. When a gas turbine engine is installed in an fuselage by short stub wings (fig. 23-2), or they may
aircraft it usually requires a number of accessories be buried in the fuselage or wings. Some aircraft
fitting to it and connections made to various aircraft have a combination of rear fuselage and tail-
systems. The engine, jet pipe and accessories, and mounted power plants, others, as shown in fig. 23-3,
in some installations a thrust reverser, must be have wing-mounted pod installations with a third
suitably cowled and an air intake must be provided engine buried in the tail structure. Turbo-propeller
for the compressor, the complete installation forming engines, however, are normally limited to installation
the aircraft power plant. in the wings or nose of an aircraft.

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