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The General Electric Company has recently been in the process of developing two new turbofan aircraft engines-the TF34 and the F101. The TF34 has been developed for the U.S. Navy's S-3A antisubmarine warfare aircraft and has been selected by Fairchild-Hiller for the U.S. Air Force A-10A; the F101 is being developed for the U.S. Air Force B-1 strategic bomber. Each of the new aircraft programs has the common requirement for subsonic endurance. The S-3A and A-10A requirements include subsonic operation only while the B-1 includes supersonic capability as well as subsonic. This basic mission-mix difference combined with major differences in engine/air vehicle installation features and different levels of technology applied due to the relative chronology in the respective development programs leads to contrasts in the design features of the major components of the engines.

All of the properties of the materials used in the design, analysis, and manufacture of jet engines are listed in the seven-volume Material Properties Handbook. Keeping these volumes of curves up-to-date has been a constant challenge, but recently work began to replace the old system of printed volumes with a computerized record that can be accessed from virtually anywhere. This paper is a status report on the project.