It's pretty much a marvel of engineering. Though 707s are really old passenger planes.....and I'm more of a GE fan since my dad works for them....but that doesn't stop me from liking all forms of engines or planes...no matter who made them.

They are beautiful machines! A long time back (we are taking years) he sent me video of him replacing the turbine blades one a jet engine and every time he inserted a blade the turbine wheel/hub... thing would rotate just slightly because of the couple ounce blade being added! I be leave it was some sort of industrial turbo shaft engine with a 1 and a half ton crank shaft! Well, I don't know if its called a crank shaft but the shaft that rotates the turbines and the induction fan. Anyway, it just amazed me how precise and well balanced that engine is! I work on regular piston engines and I onece thought that the tolerances were tight but its nothing compared to jet engines!

Yeah. that little ounce can weight a lot when it comes down to building an engine. I hear my dad complain all the time when the people wanting the engines want to move the mount for it a few inches...

and it's also one of those things where you have to add one of those in a criss cross motion. One on one side then go to the other side and place that one. I took a tour of the engine manufacturing/repairing place around the corner from where I live that was owned by GE. So I'm good when it comes to it.

That's awesome! Do you intern there or are you a guest?

I was a guest there. Although I might be an apprentice at GE if they keep their re-started apprentice program for 3 or 4 years....as by that time I'd be able to get a co-op job through my college (yay for starting freshmen year this fall!)

Collage is always fun! I got a degree specializing in automatic transmissions but I want to go back for diesel.

That's a growing field for sure.