General Electric GE36 Unducted Fan engine on a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 demonstrator at the 1988 Farnborough Air Show. MD-UHB test bed N980DC airplane. Prototype McDonnell Douglas MD-80 that first flew in 1979, then suffered tail damage in 1980. Converted to act as an engine test bed for the unducted fan project before being stored and eventually scrapped in 1994

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Size: 3200px × 2130px
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire, UK
Photo credit: © Avpics / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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