General Electric F101

The four F101 of a Rockwell B-1B

A General Electric F101-GE-102 on the test bench

The F-101 engine from General Electric is a military turbofan engine with afterburner . It was the first General Electric engine to be equipped with an afterburner with a turbofan design.

It is used in the Rockwell B-1 , the long-range heavy bomber having four of these engines.

The engine was introduced in 1970 but discontinued with the end of the original B-1 program in 1977. The program was resumed in 1983 with the modified B-1B. Of the F101-GE-102 engine, 469 units were produced between 1983 and December 1987.

A derivative of this engine is the General Electric F110 . It also served as the basis for the CFM56 .

Technical specifications

• Fan levels: 2
• Compressor stages: 9
• Low pressure turbine stage: 2
• High pressure turbine stage: 1
• Engine diameter: 1397 mm
• Length: 4597 mm
• Weight: 1996 kg
• Compressor pressure ratio: 26.8
• Air mass throughput: 159 kg / s
• By-pass ratio: 2: 1
• Thrust: 137 kilonewtons with afterburner

Web links

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• General Electric engine description (in English)