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In reply to the discussion: Boeing 787 pilot training...first hand: [View all]oldhippie
(3,249 posts)32. Aviation Week review of 787 confirms .......
.... about 1.4 Megawatts of power. That sounds more reasonable.
Each engine has two 250-kva starter generators in contrast to the single 120-kva integrated-drive generators on each engine of the 777. In addition, the auxiliary power unit (APU) has two 225-kva starter generators, thus there is a total 1.45 megawatts of power available
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_12_10_2012_p46-522072.xml&p=2
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I'm having fun picturing how, say, the Wrights would react to something like that. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
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