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Old 08-12-2008 | 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Lighteningspeed
Are we talking about XJ CRJ900? If we are, you are wrong. I do not know where you get your info but it is a fact that 19,450 lbs thrust per side for the XJ CRJ900. This is straight from the XJ POM and the Bombardier Systems manual and from Bombardier CRJ900 instructors at Montreal. So I guess all those information, including the Bombardier Customer Training Center Instructors are all wrong.
Oddly enough, we were never required to know how much thrust the engines put out for our oral since fadec calculates it based on ambient temp and pressure. But the 19.5K did seem very off to me. So I got out my systems manual...the big green binder manual. On the first page of the powerplant section (20-10-1). I will retype the introduction paragraph word for word...

"The airplane is equipped with two General Electric CF34-8C5 high bypass ratio turbofan engines which have a normal take-off thrust rating of 13,600 pounds. The engines are controlled by a full authority digital engine control system (FADEC). In the event of an engine failure during takeoff, an automatic power reserve (APR) function of the FADEC, will increase the thrust on the remaining engine to 14,510 pounds."

What Jetjock said...I do believe you are quoting the fuel capacity which is just shy of 20K but there is no way the engines are putting out that much power.
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