Elios000 t1_ja7ildp wrote
Reply to comment by tsme-EatIt in Eli5: why are some airplane jet engines under the wings and some on the vertical stabilizer? by Sad-Carrot-4397
E-jets and most business jets have tail mounted engines. the reason is mission. tail mounted engines let you have short landing gear and less chance of FOD damage on crappy airstrips. this lets you load pax and cargo with out needing extra equipment. even with under wing engines if you look at the 737 vs A320. the original 737 used turbo jets so they could keep the gear as short as possible when they change it to the CFM's they had relocate the some of the pumps and you ended up with the hamster pouch nacelles to keep the low gear. Airbus when they built the A320 years later airport infrastructure had improved a ton so they just keep the gear taller.
tsme-EatIt t1_ja8anrx wrote
I'm aware of that but OP specifically used the term "vertical stabliizer", which excludes fuselage-mounted tail engines.
Elios000 t1_ja8c1b9 wrote
to layperson it looks the same
tsme-EatIt t1_ja8ebxi wrote
Do layperson say "vertical stabilizer"? Most of them just say tail
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