twin-engine
Gulfstream G200
The Gulfstream G200, formerly known as the Israel Aircraft Industries Galaxy Astra is a twin-engine business jet.
- Role: Mid-sized business jet
- National origin: Israel
- Manufacturer: Israel Aircraft Industries/Gulfstream Aerospace
- Production line: Israel
- First flight: December 25, 1997
- Introduction: 1999
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1997–2011
- Number built: 350
Specifications Gulfstream G200
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Capacity: Typical Seating of 8-10, 18 Max
- Payload: 4,050 lb (1,840 kg)
- Length: 62 ft 3 in (18.97 m)
- Wingspan: 58 ft 1 in (17.70 m)
- Height: 21 ft 5 in (6.53 m)
- Wing area: 369 ft² (34.3 m²)
- Empty weight: 19,200 lb (8,709 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 35,450 lb (16,080 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306A turbofans, 6,040 lbf (26.9 kN) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach 0.85 (487 knots, 560 mph, 900 km/h) at altitude
- Cruise speed: Mach 0.80 (459 knots, 528 mph, 850 km/h) normal cruise at altitude
- Range: 3,400 nmi (3,910 mi, 6,300 km) at Mach 0.75 with 4 passengers
- Service ceiling: 45,000 ft (13,700 m)
Embraer ERJ-145
The Embraer ERJ 145 family is a series of twin-engine regional jets produced by Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace company. Family members include the ERJ 135 (37 passengers), ERJ 140 (44 passengers), and ERJ 145 (50 passengers), as well as the Legacy business jet and the R-99 family of military aircraft.
- Role: Twin-engine Regional airliner
- National origin: Brazil
- Manufacturer: Embraer
- Production line: São José dos Campos, São Paulo State.
- First flight: August 11, 1995
- Introduction: December 1996
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1995 – present
- Number built: 890 as of January 2012
- Variants: Embraer ERJ-135, ERJ-140, Embraer Legacy business jet
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: 3 (2 pilots + flight attendant)
- Capacity: 50
- Length: 29.87 m (98 ft 0 in)
- Wingspan: 20.04 m (65 ft 9 in)
- Height: 6.76 m (22 ft 2 in)
- Empty weight: 18,500 kg (40,785 lb)
- Max Payload weight: 5,909 kg (13,027 lb)
- Max take-off weight: 24,100 kg (53,131 lb)
- Powerplant: 2x Rolls-Royce AE 3007-A1E (8700 lb thrust)
Performance
- Maximum speed: Mach 0.80, 470 kts, 530 mph, 851 km/h
- Range: 3,704 km (2,000 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 11,278 m (37,000 ft)
Boeing 757
The Boeing 757 is a mid-size, narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner that was designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the manufacturer’s largest single-aisle passenger aircraft.
- Role: Narrow-body jet airliner
- National origin: United States
- Manufacturer: Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- First flight: February 19, 1982
- Introduction: January 1, 1983 with Eastern Air Lines
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1981–2004
- Number built: 1,050
- Variant: Boeing C-32, Boeing 757-200PF
Specifications
General characteristics
Boeing 757-200
- Cockpit crew: two
- Seating capacity: 239 (one-class)
- Overall length: 155 ft 3 in (47.32 m)
- Wingspan: 124 ft 10 in (38.05 m)
- Overall height: 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m)
- Cabin width: 11.6 ft (3.54 m)
- Cabin length: 118.4 ft (36.09 m)
- Operating empty weight: 127,520 lb (57,840 kg)
- Maximum Fuel: 11,489 US gal (43,490 L)
- Maximum take-off weight: 255,000 lb (115,680 kg)
- Engine (× 2): Rolls-Royce RB211, Pratt & Whitney PW2037, PW2040
Performance
- Service ceiling: 42,000 ft (12,800 m)
- Cruising speed: Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 458 knots, 850 km/h at cruise altitude of 35,000 ft or 10.66 km)
- Maximum speed: Mach 0.86 (567 mph, 493 knots, 913 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Range fully loaded: 3,900 nmi (7,222 km), 4,100 nmi (7,600 km) with winglets
Boeing 757-300
The 757-300, the stretched version of the aircraft, entered service with Condor in 1999. With an overall length of 178.7 feet (54.5 m), the type is the longest single-aisle twinjet ever built.
- First flight: August 2, 1998, N757X
- Introduction: March 10, 1999 to Condor
Specifications
General characteristics
Boeing 757-300
- Cockpit crew: two
- Seating capacity: 295 (one-class)
- Overall length: 178 ft 8 in (54.47 m)
- Wingspan: 124 ft 10 in (38.05 m)
- Overall height: 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m)
- Cabin width: 11.6 ft (3.54 m)
- Cabin length: 141.8 ft (43.21 m)
- Operating empty weight: 142,400 lb (64,590 kg)
- Maximum Fuel: 11,466 US gal (43,400 L)
- Maximum take-off weight: 272,500 lb (123,600 kg)
- Engine (× 2): Rolls-Royce RB211, Pratt & Whitney PW2037, PW2040, PW2043
Performance
- Service ceiling: 42,000 ft (12,800 m)
- Cruising speed: Mach 0.80 (530 mph, 458 knots, 850 km/h at cruise altitude of 35,000 ft or 10.66 km)
- Maximum speed: Mach 0.86 (567 mph, 493 knots, 913 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Range fully loaded: 3,395 nmi (6,287 km), 3,595 nmi (6,658 km) with winglets
Dassault Rafale
The Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engine, canard delta-wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, and nuclear strike missions.
- Role: Multirole fighter aircraft
- National origin: France
- Manufacturer: Dassault Aviation
- First flight: 4 July 1986
- Introduction: 18 May 2001
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1986–present
- Number built: 133 (as of October 2014)
Military operators
- French Air Force 180 have been ordered
- French Navy
- Egyptian Air Force 24 on order
Variants
- Rafale A – Technology demonstrator, first flying in 1986
- Rafale B – Two-seater version for the French Air Force
- Rafale C – Single-seat version for the French Air Force
- Rafale M – Carrier-borne version for the French Naval Aviation
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: 1–2
- Length: 15.27 m (50.1 ft)
- Wingspan: 10.80 m (35.4 ft)
- Height: 5.34 m (17.5 ft)
- Wing area: 45.7 m² (492 ft²)
- Empty weight:
- C: 9,500 kilograms (20,900 lb)
- B: 9,770 kilograms (21,540 lb)
- M: 10,196 kilograms (22,480 lb)
- Loaded weight: 14,016 kg (30,900 lb)
- Max. takeoff weight: 24,500 kg (C/D), 22,200 kg (M) (54,000 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Snecma M88-2 turbofans
- Dry thrust: 50.04 kN (11,250 lbf) each
- Thrust with afterburner: 75.62 kN (17,000 lbf) each
- Fuel capacity: 4,700 kg (10,360 lb) internal
Performance
- Maximum speed:
- High altitude: Mach 1.8 (1,912 km/h, 1,032 knots)
- Low altitude: Mach 1.1 (1,390 km/h, 750 knots)
- Range: 3,700+ km (2,000+ nmi) with 3 drop tanks
- Combat radius: 1,852+ km (1,000+ nmi) on penetration mission
- Service ceiling: 15,235 m (50,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 304.8+ m/s (60,000+ ft/min)
- Wing loading: 306 kg/m² (62.8 lb/ft²)
- Thrust/weight: 0.988 (100% fuel, 2 EM A2A missile, 2 IR A2A missile) version M
- Maximum g-load: +9/–3.6 g
Armament
- Guns: 1× 30 mm (1.18 in) GIAT 30/M791 autocannon with 125 rounds
- Hardpoints: 14 for Air Force versions (Rafale B/C), 13 for Navy version (Rafale M) with a capacity of 9,500 kg (20,900 lb) external fuel and ordnance and provisions to carry combinations of:
- Missiles:
- MBDA MICA IR or EM or Magic II and
- MBDA Meteor air-to-air missiles in the future
- Air-to-ground:
- MBDA Apache or
- Storm Shadow-SCALP EG or
- AASM-Hammer or
- GBU-12 Paveway II or GBU-49 Enhanced Paveway II
- GBU-24 Paveway III
- AS-30L
- Air-to-surface:
- AM 39-Exocet
- CVS401-Perseus
- Deterrence:
- ASMP-A nuclear missile
- Other:
- Thales Damocles targeting pod
- AREOS (Airborne Recce Observation System)reconnaissance pod
- up to 5 drop tanks
- Buddy-buddy refuelling pod
- Missiles:
Avionics
- Thales RBE2 radar
- Thales SPECTRA electronic warfare system.
- Thales/SAGEM-OSF Optronique Secteur Frontal infra-red search and track system.
Boeing 767
The Boeing 767 is a mid- to large-size, long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was the manufacturer’s first wide-body twinjet and its first airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit.
- Role: Wide-body jet airliner
- National origin: United States
- Manufacturer: Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- First flight: 767-200ER September 26, 1981, 767-300ER December 9, 1986, 767-400ER October 9, 1999
- Introduction: September 8, 1982 with United Airlines
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1981–present
- Number built: 1,069 through January 2015
Military variants
- 767 Airborne Surveillance Testbed – – the Airborne Optical Adjunct (AOA) was modified from the prototype 767-200 for a United States Army program
- E-767 – the Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWACS) platform for the Japan Self-Defense Forces
- KC-767 Advanced Tanker – the 767-200ER-based aerial tanker developed for the USAF KC-X tanker competition
- KC-767 Tanker Transport – the 767-200ER-based aerial refueling platform operated by the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare), and the Japan Self-Defense Forces
- Tanker conversions – the 767 MMTT or Multi-Mission Tanker Transport is a 767-200ER-based aircraft operated by the Colombian Air Force
Specifications
General characteristics
Boeing 767-200ER
- Cockpit crew: 2
- Seating capacity: 255, optional 290 (1-class)
- Overall length: 159 ft 2 in (48.5 m)
- Wingspan: 156 ft 1 in (47.6 m)
- Overall height: 15,85 m.
- Fuselage width: 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
- Fuselage Height: 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m)
- Operating empty weight: 181,610 lb (82,380 kg)
- Maximum take-off weight: 395,000 lb (179,170 kg)
- Service ceiling: 11.887 m
- Cruising speed: Mach 0.80 (470 knots, 530 mph, 851 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Maximum speed: Mach 0.86 (493 knots, 567 mph, 913 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Range fully loaded: 6,385 nmi (7,348 mi; 11,825 km)
- Engine (× 2): P&W PW4052, or 4056, GE CF6-80C2, RR RB211-524G or H
- Thrust: PW: 63,300 lb (282 kN), GE: 62,100 lbf (276 kN)
Boeing 767-300ER
- Cockpit crew: 2
- Seating capacity: 290; optional 350 (1-class)
- Overall length: 180 ft 3 in (54.9 m)
- Wingspan: 156 ft 1 in (47.6 m)
- Overall height: 15,85 m.
- Fuselage width: 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
- Fuselage Height: 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m)
- Operating empty weight: 198,440 lb (90,010 kg)
- Maximum take-off weight: 412,000 lb (186,880 kg)
- Service ceiling: 11.887 m
- Cruising speed: Mach 0.80 (470 knots, 530 mph, 851 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Maximum speed: Mach 0.86 (493 knots, 567 mph, 913 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Range fully loaded: 6,310 nmi (7,260 mi; 11,690 km)
- Engine (× 2): P&W PW4056, 4060, or 4062. GE CF6-80C2. RR RB211-524G, or H
- Thrust: PW: 63,300 lbf (282 kN), GE: 62,100 lbf (276 kN), RR: 59,500 lbf (265 kN)
Boeing 767-400ER
- Cockpit crew: 2
- Seating capacity: 375 (1-class)
- Overall length: 201 ft 4 in (61.4 m)
- Wingspan: 170 ft 4 in (51.9 m)
- Overall height: 15,85 m.
- Fuselage width: 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m)
- Fuselage Height: 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m)
- Operating empty weight: 229,000 lb (103,870 kg)
- Maximum take-off weight: 395,000 lb (179,170 kg)
- Service ceiling: 11.887 m
- Cruising speed: Mach 0.80 (470 knots, 530 mph, 851 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Maximum speed: Mach 0.86 (493 knots, 567 mph, 913 km/h at 35,000 ft (11,000 m) cruise altitude)
- Range fully loaded: 5,625 nmi (6,473 mi; 10,418 km)
- Engine (× 2): P&W PW4062 GE CF6-80C2
- Thrust: PW: 63,300 lbf (282 kN) GE: 63,500 lbf (282 kN)
ATR 72
The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop short-haul regional airliner built by the French-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR. A stretched variant of the ATR 42, the aircraft seats up to 74 passengers in a single-class configuration, and is operated by a two-pilot crew.
- Role: Regional airliner
- National origin: France/Italy
- Manufacturer: ATR
- Production line: Toulouse – Blagnac, France
- First flight: 27 October 1988
- Introduction: 27 October 1989 Finnair
- Status: In service
- Produced: 1988–present
- Number built: 754 as of December 2014
- Developed from: ATR 42
Specifications (ATR 72–600)
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Capacity: 68 (1-class, 31 in (79 cm) pitch) to 74 (1-class, 29 in (74 cm) pitch) passengers
- Length: 27.17 m (89 ft 2 in)
- Wingspan: 27.05 m (88 ft 9 in)
- Width: 2.57 m (8 ft 5 in) (maximum cabin width)
- Height: 7.65 m (25 ft 1 in)
- Wing area: 61.00 m2 (656.6 sq ft)
- Aspect ratio: 12.0:1
- Empty weight: 13,010 kg (28,682 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 22,800 kg (50,265 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 5,000 kg (11,000 lb)
- Typical payload: 7,500 kg (16,500 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F turboprops, 1,846 kW (2,475 shp) each
- Propellers: 568F-bladed Hamilton Standard, 3.93 m (12 ft 11 in) diameter
Performance
- Cruise speed: 509 km/h; 316 mph (275 kn)
- Range: 1,528 km; 949 mi (825 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 7,620 m (25,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 6.88 m/s (1,355 ft/min)
- Takeoff Run at MTOW: 1,333 m (4,373 ft)