@ Sacramento Mather Airport, Sacramento, CA
October 2016
A close-up view of a modern high-bypass fan section. This powerplant generates 59,000 lbs of thrust, four of them are required to get the behemoth C-5 aircraft airborne. A turbofan is essentially a turbojet driving a ducted fan, with both of these contributing to the thrust. The General Electric CF6 is a family of high-bypass turbofan engines produced by GE Aviation found mostly on airliners but chosen for the modernization of the C-5 Galaxy transports into the C-5M Super Galaxy. First run in 1971, more than 8,300 of these engines have been produced. Nikon D7100 w/18-200mm.
