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Old Feb 16, 2007 | 2:05 am
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chornedsnorkack
 
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Trying my version of the list (of jets):

Big delta wing - SST-s Concorde and Tu-144.

High wing, 4 engines underwing - the only passenger plane with this arrangement is Bae-146/Avro RJ. There are several military transports with the same arrangement - C-141, Il-76, C-17, C-5, An-124. But Bae-146 is very much smaller than those - 26 m wingspan, while C-141 and Il-76 have about 50 m, and the others are yet bigger.

High wing, 6 engines underwing - An-225.

High wing, 2 engines underwing - An-148

High wing, 2 engines on top of wing - An-72/74

Low wing, 4 engines underwing, 2 rows of windows - A380

Low wing, 4 engines underwing, hump in front - 747. No other plane has the hump, except Carvair which is a prop plane, and all 747s have hump except Dreamlifter which has upper deck but then brow behind the upper deck.

Low wing, 4 engines underwing, widebody without hump:
Il-86, Il-96 and A340

Low wing, 4 engines underwing, narrowbody:
B707, DC-8, Convair 880/990.

B707 and DC-8 differ by landing gear. DC-8 stands tall, 707 stands low. On passenger planes, windows are different: DC-8 is distinctive for having huge windows (36X46 cm!) every 102 cm, while 707 has smaller windows every 51 cm.

Low wing, 2 engines underwing and 1 engine in tail . Tristar and DC-10. Tristar has a S-duct, while DC-10/MD-11 have tail engine separated in the fin.

Low wing, 2 engines underwing only, widebodies:

A300, A310, A330, B767, B77

Low wing, 2 engines underwing only, narrowbodies:

Boeing 737, Boeing 757, Dassault Mercure, A320, Tu-204, Tu-334, E-jets.

Boeing 737 is distinctive for standing low. 737-100 and -200 have low-bypass engines. 737-300 to -900 have squashed engines. Whereas A320 and B757 stand tall and have unsquashed engines.

Low wing, 4 engines inside the wing:
De Havilland Comet and Nimrod. And Myassishchev Bison bomber.

Low wing, 2 engines inside the wing:
Tu-104.

Clean low wing, 4 engines in pairs besides T-tail, large narrowbodies:
Vickers VC-10 and Il-62.

Clean low wing, 4 engines in pairs besides T-tail, small:
Lockheed Jetstar business jet.

Clean low wing, 3 engines in tail, T-tail:
HS Trident (some have fourth engine in the fin), B727, Tu-154, Yak-40, Yak-42.

Clean low wing trijet, +-tail:
Dassault business jets Falcon 50, Falcon 900 and Falcon 7X

Clean low wing twinjet, 2 engines on the sides of fuselage:

Airliners Caravelle, BAC 1-11, DC-9 with derivatives MD-80, MD-90 and B-717, F28 with F70 and F100, Tu-134, CRJ, ERJ, a plenty of business jets like Gulfstreams, Learjets, Cessna Citations and others like Aerospatiale Corvette, HS-125, Raytheon, Dassault etc.

Most have T-tails. Many business jets have various +-tails, while Caravelle is the only airliner with +-tail.

So... that should be the list of jet engine arrangements. Any omissions?
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