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Old 23rd February 2009, 02:48 PM
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OEC departed 1 hour late today as QF 107 to Los Angeles, and it had a funny looking engine:
Not an engine rather the cowling cover, pinched from a OJ registered B744.
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Old 23rd February 2009, 03:43 PM
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Old 23rd February 2009, 05:39 PM
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Not an engine rather the cowling cover, pinched from a OJ registered B744.
Didn't know that RR RB211's and GE CF6's had interchangeable engine cowls???
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Old 23rd February 2009, 05:42 PM
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Didn't know that RR RB211's and GE CF6's had interchangeable engine cowls???
Unsure, seems its a 'grey' cowling cover though.
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Old 23rd February 2009, 05:52 PM
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Didn't know that RR RB211's and GE CF6's had interchangeable engine cowls???
They don't!
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Old 23rd February 2009, 06:00 PM
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Old 23rd February 2009, 06:06 PM
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Not an engine rather the cowling cover, pinched from a OJ registered B744.
As AJ said above, they aren't off the RR(OJ*) 744's. Completly different size and shape from the Rolls Royce to the General Electric.

My question is why do they bother making the other cowlings grey when there arent any GE QF744 with grey engines. Wouldnt they just make them white? OED and OEB(before repaint) and I assume others had grey cowlings at one stage.
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Old 23rd February 2009, 06:42 PM
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Doesn't OEJ have grey engines?

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Old 23rd February 2009, 06:52 PM
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Doesn't OEJ have grey engines?

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Yes it does
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Old 23rd February 2009, 07:05 PM
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Yes it does
Not if your comparing it to RR engines. Yes they are a shade of grey compared to the normal GE 74's but no where near the Rolls Royce which is what we are really talking about.





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