Estimating Aircraft Turbine Engine Costs,

Abstract

The memorandum presents equations for estimating development and production costs of turbojet and turbofan engines. Thrust is found to be the best single variable for estimating both development and production cost, but using thrust alone the differences between actual and estimated costs are unacceptably large. For development, these differences are greatly reduced by incorporating a second explanatory variable--either speed, absolute altitude, or thrust-to-airflow ratio. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0738026

Entities

People

  • J. P. Large

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Engines
  • Gas Turbine Regenerators
  • Gas Turbines
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Jet Engines
  • Production
  • Turbine Components
  • Turbines
  • Turbofan Engines
  • Turbojet Engines

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Strategic Security Studies