Water Injection for 707/KC-135A (When added) and other old jets

[tight storm]

For this I will focus on civilian jets, like the 707/DC-8/CV880/990/Comet 1, however was also applied on the early B-52, F-100, and F-104.

Wter injection on the Boeing 707’s early turbojet engines (like the Pratt & Whitney JT3C) was a crucial feature—primarily used during takeoff—to significantly boost thrust (by up to ~30%) by both cooling engine components and increasing exhaust mass flow

The cooling effect allowed higher fuel flow and RPM without overheating critical parts, while the added mass of vaporized water increased thrust generation

Additionally, water injection cooling helped extend turbine life and reduce harmful emissions like NOₓ

In Aeronautica, including a water injection feature would not only enhance realism—depicting smoky, powerful takeoffs and lift boosts—but also educate people on little known wonders and mechanisms of aviation history, as well as making more people fly these early jets for this fun and this unique detail

It could add a small thrust boost (20 percent maybe) and toggled by ";", like a small afterburner, increasing fuel consumptuon and maybe a big smoke trail like seen in the images

[soft bison]

water injection also applies to certain airliners such as 747, athens flight 411 incident probable cause is the failure to engage water injection during take off, which reduced thrust

[tight storm]

most likely it was pretty common in a lot of early jets and i feel it would be a really goof thing too add to aero

[spark pewter]

[hasty helm]

DC-8

[tight storm]

yeah

it is on a lot of old aircraft

Pls vote yes

[agile steppe]

I didn’t know this existed

cool

[brittle seal]

[white orbit]

sick bring this up when i do 707 late of this year

@tight storm

[clear belfry]

really good idea i like this a lot

the only thing i can see being inconsistent is that if it was technically a mini-afterburner it would end up using condition faster (i think that's how it works right) despite you having said water injection extends the life of a turbine

but not a big problem

[barren surge]

also fokker 100

and 70

both have that

[tight storm]

please do and on other aircraft 🙏

[tight storm]

yeah, maybe remove that ig/ or reduce the wear? idrk

defo decrease fuel efficiency tho

[vapid stone]

Chatgpt detected (?)

[vapid stone]

No way this guy actually uses em dashes though

[agile steppe]

that same sentence also has no period

[vapid stone]

and subscripts

[agile steppe]

but I thought so too because yea the subscript

[vapid stone]

also just the wording looks like they had a sentence and asked GPT to rephrase it

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I mean no rule states that people cant use chat gpt or other ai chat bots

Correct me if im wrong tho

[agile steppe]

well yea but it’s just frowned upon

I’d remove my yes if it was

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I mean even if it was written by ai, its still a good suggestion nontheless

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Also what are subscripts if you dont mind me asking, ive never heard that word in my life

[agile steppe]

that

the X

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Ohhh

Alright

[agile steppe]

superscripts go above, like exponents

[velvet gust]

whar you mean by that 🤨

first tu-154 needs to be finished lmao

[clear belfry]

No yea fuel consumption would make sense but from a basic coding perspective idk if they’d be able to reduce condition wear but also then again I’m not a dev so shrug

[dawn bloom]

fokker 70 has water injection!?

[hasty helm]

Umm no?

[tight storm]

i think that flying on 100% reduces your condition faster so i would assume that this would be the same sort of thing—however i've seen it is used to increase engine life— so idk

[barren surge]

i may have been tweaking them

[soft bison]

since it's water, why not use seperate fuel, one for the engine itself, and one for the water injection, which uses water

it would make airliners OP
true but at a cost of condition

[hasty helm]

It's basically jato but not really

More like bootleg jato

[soft bison]

jato that does not provide rocket thrust, but improves main engine thrust

[tight storm]

yes

[hard lily]

+20-30% is nowhere near enough to make airliners half as good as a random SST

airliners are that shit

[spark pewter]

[vapid stone]

this makes the most sense

[unkempt root]

so THAT'S why early airliners are so smoky

[unkempt root]

could've copy pasted from a website, or he's just like that

[agile steppe]

true