Man creates the world's biggest jet engine on Microsoft Flight Simulator to see what chaos it causes

This man created the world’s largest jet engine on Microsoft Flight Simulator to see what chaos it would cause.

YouTuber Swiss001 admitted that the GE90 was his favorite jet engine.

It also happened to be the world’s largest and most powerful, capable of up to 150,000Ibs of thrust.

He decided he was going to create it on Microsoft Flight Simulator and make it even bigger.

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Creating the world’s largest jet engine on Microsoft Flight Simulator – and going one step further

The GE90 is the creator’s favorite jet engine: largest and most powerful – 81,000–150,000lbs of thrust.

By way of comparison, that’s five times more thrust than Concorde engines.

But for Swiss001, he wanted to go one step further and make this already huge engine even bigger.

Nicknaming it the GE100, he enlarged it by 20 percent on Microsoft Flight Simulator.

This isn’t the YouTuber’s first time dabbling with a plane on that program – you may recall when he put Cessna 172 engines onto an Airbus A320.

The GE100 was capable of producing 127,000Ibs of thrust, which is incredible.

There’s one big downside though – the engines would add an additional 28,000Ibs in extra weight to the plane.

That would be the equivalent of carrying a small plane onboard.

Flight tests reflected this, as little improvement was made due to the extra weight.

If anything, the plane actually performed worse on takeoff.

It’s a good thing that this was on a flight simulator, because this happening in real life would….not be good.

Would an even bigger engine turn things around?

In his next experiment:, he decided he’d scale up even more to create a GE180.

That’s double the size of the original GE90.

At this point, the engines weighed as much as the entire Boeing 777 itself, and had a thrust of 500,000Ibs.

Inexplicably, the plane was capable of taking off, but was still overweight, inefficient, and burning fuel unnecessarily.

“The engines look ridiculous, and they have no performing benefit because they weigh so much,” Swiss001 concluded.

It just goes to show that bigger isn’t always better.

Ultimately, it’s best to do these types of experiments on a flight simulator.

Because, you know, physics is a thing in the real world.

Plus, it’d be quite a waste to spend money fitting an engine to a plane that would make it way less efficient.

You can have a lot of fun on flight simulators, whether it’s taking on an ultra-difficult challenge.

Or seeing if you’ve got what it takes to be a Boeing 737 pilot.

To see the experiment play out in full, visit Swiss001’s YouTube channel.

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