Boeing 777x Delays and the GE9X engine stator vane issue. 

Congratulations on the 100k subs! Well deserved!! :D

Congrats to 100K Subscribers! It's 2 AM in the morning here in Germany, I really should go sleep, but here I am watching the Blancolirio Channel :)

G'day Jaun Congrats on 100k subscribers. It shows people appreciate your videos for the honest, no nonsense info you cover. It also shows we love your videos on family, the mighty Luscombe, flying, music, airshows, motorbike rides etc. Keep up the fantastic videos. And thankyou for sharing your knowledge with us. Here's to your next 100k subscribers 🍺

I started watching your channel with the Oroville Dam . Because the regular news was not covering it . I have since learn to enjoy your perspective partly because you have let your viewers know you as a person . Thank You for your efforts ! Steven Smith Lansing NY Finger Lakes Region NYS

Nevada County’s most interesting man. 100k subscribers! Congratulations!

That engine diameter is huge. Congratulations Juan on 100k.

100K! Congratulations on the well deserved milestone!

You should get a gold pin for 100K Jaun, congrats buddy. I'll see you here.

The thermal efficiency of an engine is directly related to the maximum operating temperature of the heated gas running through the engine and doing the work. Specifically, the efficiency is determined by how hot the gas is when it starts doing the work, and how much it has cooled doing the work. The limiting factor is how hot this gas can be. The tolerance of the materials and the extent the material can be cooled limits the max temperature achievable. This is difficult to do in a turbine engine because the turbine blades must be constantly exposed to the hot gas without any easy way to cool them. Ceramic materials and blown cooling air through the inside of the blade itself are attempts to increase the turbine inlet temperature limit.

Juan, you are a very intelligent knowledgable man and I thank you for your clear , concise and to the point explanations .

As an engineer, I used to give tours at the Bonneville Lock & Dam and the Folsom Historic Powerhouse. From everything have read, while experimenting with the single bucket wheel, al la the Kinght Wheel, Lester Pelton noticed that when directing the water stream at the side of the bucket the wheel sped up. That's because when hitting the bucket the direction of the water is reversed imparting more energy to the wheel. The split wheel was a further development.

Again, congratulations! Great content on the GE9x and a fantastic bonus nugget! I’m a metallurgist with a PhD and background in aerospace composites and coatings who moved to California a few years ago to continue my career in materials development - now doing R&D in metals including Ti and even gold alloys... I first discovered your channel with your fire tanker videos. Your channel has become my favorite with every video being well worth watching... I’m always very impressed with your content.

Hip hip hooray!! 100K!! Looks like a good video. Will watch it later. Be well. 👍👍✌

Congrats on the 100K! Thanks for the update on the engine. Like the history lesson at the end. Get better , good luck.

It's interesting how technology has moved things ahead in every walk of life. The German Axial Flow engine was a superior design over the Centrifugal Flow engines we used, but they wouldn't hold up as well. Same thing with P-38's using copper tubing that had to be pulled out of the plane and annealed every so many hours. Then along comes aluminum tubing that was halfway trouble free from fatigue and didn't have to be annealed. I have to admit that the thrust the GE9X puts out really surprised me. Back when I was in the Navy(1966/1970) the big engine on the block was a J-79 that produced about 16,000 pounds of thrust in full after burner! Something producing over a hundred thousand pounds of thrust is unbelievable for an old timer like me!..........Another very informative video, Juan. Keep these puppies comin'.(:>)

I am thrilled to hear that 100,000...A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS..!!

I hope you are getting better. I know you can not wait to be able to fly again. I am praying for you.

great video. 2 for 1. Many thanks! And congrats on making the major milestone of 100,000 viewers!

Juan, the FAA test requirement for engine cycles is 3000 cycles. That is/was start to idle, run to takeoff thrust, back to idle, reverse thrust, idle and shutdown. Rinse and repeat. I recall that it takes about 20-25 minutes per cycle. Probably around 500 cycles, they'll pull the bore-a-scope plugs and inspect. Then every 500 cycles, and a full tear down at 3000 cycles. Peebles Ohio Engine Test is going to be quite busy, so anyone living in the area has probably heard an increase of test engines. One thing about test engines, is that test engines are tested at the maximum out of balance condition, as well as tested @ 10% under rating of thrust as well as 10% over rate. Boeing and GE can run a condensed flight test program, by doubling up on the number of tests run per day, provided they have test personnel and aircraft available.

Congratulations on the 100k!!!

Juan, once again an EXCELLENT technical description of the issues with the 9X. Nobody does it better.

100K subs, Awesome-sauce!!!! You're the best, Juan!! Thanks for the history tidbits too in Nevada City; we'll check it out one day here soon👍😊

Congrats on 100k! Well deserved. Started following after doing a search for the Orville dam. Probably 8k at that point. Really enjoyed the dam info and now the 737 and 777 updates. Lots of family history with the 777. Keep up the quality content!

Outstanding report that any layman can understand more now of how turbines work. The little tour of you town at the end peaks my interest to visit. Some great history there. I also noticed a winery in the background!! Thanks Juan. Love your reports.

Congratulations on 100K! Love the channel and look forward to many more updates

Congrats on the 100K! Loved the bonus coverage of the Gold Rush History! Wasn't expecting that! Beautiful country in northern CA!

100K Way to go Juan. You deserve it.

100K...woohoo!!! That is amazing Juan! You have grown this channel thanks to YOUR presentations of all that is aviation. Lets get to 200K and change aviation for the better! Be safe and be kind to one another.

Congrats on the 100K. Those numbers are really taking off ✈️

Congatulations JB on your 100k milestone. Looking forward to your 200k milestone.

Congrats! Like many others, I've been watching since Oroville dam incident. I was so impressed by your knowledge, I guessed you were an engineer, but pleasantly surprised by your background. Thank you!

Yea brother! And also, I work on the 777X wing. Man, your talk of the gold, this ole Texas boy has spent many a day panning the Yuba River. I miss those days. Thanks for all the great content brother!

I originally found your Channel with the Oroville Dam updates. I stayed with your channel because you don't give us any bullshit just the facts. And I've come to enjoy your content a lot. Congrats on 100k keep up the good work Juan. Tip of the hat from south of you in Ione.

Thank you for the video Blancolirio, it was informative and educational, my kind of video. I remember when I lived in Albuquerque, NM years ago, going over to the GE plant there, where my Uncle Will worked. He invited me to their open house and to say the least I was seriously impressed. At the time they had just started building the GE 90 intakes, the nacelles and intake stator vanes, which I believe are fixed in place, and all the other parts that make up the outside of the engine. It was amazing to see all of the machinery they use to build these engines and the science behind building them. They have one section where there's a container filled with water which they place stator vanes in to do ultrasonic test to make sure that there isn't any micro fractures in the material, it's all a very exact science. What impressed me the most was walking up to a GE 90 intake they had standing up and looking up at this massive intake that you can fit a 737 fuselage in, folks just can't appreciate the size of these engines until they see them in person. One of the men there that was crating an intake to send out to GE's final assembly plant, where the inner part of the engine is made,which is in some other state, told us back then that the engine was said to put out over 130,000 Lbs. of thrust or maybe what he meant was that GE's final objective was to reach that goal with the design. Or maybe the lower thrust levels they've been running them at, are a derated setting, I don't know, but they are absolutely amazing engines and they make one of the coolest sounds in jet engine history. Thank you for the quality videos and God bless you.

Congratulations Juan. You deserve the success you've achieved. You're work, from reporting on the Oroville dam to the 737 Max, has all been a high quality of presentation of facts and entertainment rolled into one. One word sums it up, fantastic!

Congratulations on attaining 100k subscribers, there are now 100k better informed people thanks to your no-nonsense thorough presentations, a Broncolirio notification is always a treat. The 'bonus' feature in this presentation was very informative too. Keep it up, and continued good health, see you here!

Great you've hit 100k viewers. Enjoyed this report and look forward to updates.

As usual for Juan. A comprehensive layman's update on some very technical material. I thank you for the work you put forth to bring exceptional content to your channel. And a big congrats on the subscriber milestone. Can we do a million? I think so.

Double congrats on both 100K and being able to explain stator vanes 👍🏼👍🏼

Congrats on 100k!! Very well deserved Sir! ( :

It was nice see you today at KGOO. Thank your for the videos!!

Congratulations Mr. Brown. I hope you get back up in the air, where you belong, A.S.A.P. but still keep us updated here with what you can. Thank you

Congrats Juan, I really enjoy your reporting. You make it easy for us to understand and give us fact based reporting. Thank You.

Juan, Congratulations on 100K subscribers! Great update and explanation on the 777X/GE9X status - thank you! God bless Paul

Congrats. It's comforting to know that there is now 100,000 followers that will realize the truth about your subjects. Gee that feels so good. On your last update I think there trying to get to much out of these engines.

Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers! Your content is excellent! Thank you

🎉🎉🎉🎉congratulations Juan on hitting 100,000!!!!!

Congrats on reaching 100K Juan! Great and interesting content!

Congratulations on 100k subs! You deserve it, Juan.

Thank you Jaun for the engine update awesome explanation! Congratulations on 100k subscribers see you here my friend Ken

One of a hundred thousand here. Can’t say how much I appreciate your videos. Congrats, keep it up I really like your no bs facts. Thank you.

Congratulations on the 100K subs. I ran in some Kewit guys and asked if any of their crew had worked on the Oroville Dam project. One kid had and I thanked him and asked if he knew of your channel. He didn't know but I wrote it down for him and he most likely will be a new sub. Great report Juan.

I was amazed to see the technicians at GE assembling the titanium stator blades with bare hands. I would have thought that finger grease and acids could have caused etching, when combined with the high compression temperatures attained in the compressor section.

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and the bonus clip at the end ... Nevada City here I come ...

Superb video Juan - it has everything...aviation economics, physics, materials science...and the rest, all easily understandable....and connecting it all back to the gold rush history at the end there was just genius!! Mega congrats on 100k from me in the UK - hoping your freedom to fly will be restored ASAP but in the meantime do continue with more awesome blancolirio content. Thank you!

Congratulations!! I’m so extremely proud of you and to be a part of this journey! Much obliged!

Congratulations on 100k subs! Well deserved, sir.

Well deserved 100 thousand subscribers. The side trip to the gold processing was interesting. We have a lot of the same history in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in this case copper. A lot of abandoned infrastructure. When the money ran out so did everybody. Thanks for keeping us up to date on the straight dope about aviation , it's good to hear from somebody who knows what he's talking about.

Congratulations on achieving 100k subs, well deserved, your videos are always informative! Thanks again!

Juan well done on 100k fella you deserve it fantastic channel, and as always respect and best wishes from across the pond keep up the good work....

Thanks for the Nevada City featurette....It adds that extra bit of history of Gold that most of us never knew...and how the turbine concept migrated from history.

Once again you provide (and break down) the technical issues to a level we can grasp. Thanks.

Well explained with great technical knowledge and detail, but simply stated and clear for folks of a wide range of backgrounds. This is why you have 100k subscribers. Congrats

Great explanation of the jet engines and what makes them better. Although a little in the weeds for this old farm boy. Always enjoy the seeing the old gold machinery and the technology of a bygone era. Congratulations on making the 1 plus K viewers. You have earned it with straight forward analysis, style and interesting presentations. Good health my friend and hope you are back in the right seat soon.

Congrats on 100K. Love the history lesson.

That picture at 7:19 on a 747 really shows just how huge this new engine is

Thank you Juan for all you do, as a Gold prospector myself I especially enjoyed the aside at the end ! Lots of rich history around there.

100,000+ subscribers congrats sir good content always draws the crowd's and quality keeps them coming back. 🎉🎊

Congrats on 100K! Always loved your content on aviation related update, now history of gold in California. Now I'll have to check out the Pelton wheel. 777 is a fabulous aircraft, we routinely put 15 to 20 tons of cargo on our 300ER with fairly full PAX load between SFO/HKG. Hope GE get the blade issue sorted out soon.

In the mid 70s we (CWRU material science class) had an engineer from GE show us their sintered ceramic compressor blades. Tap them and it sounded like vitreous china, but you could hit with a hammer and torch it with oxy propane and the quench it in water and it wouldn't break.

Congrats on 100K - not surprised, think that's just the beginning!

Thank you for the video Juan... and Congratulations on achieving 100K subscribers!!!

Awesome, congratulations on 100,000 subs! 👍

Congratulations with the 100,000 subscribers Jaun you have done a wonderful job on your page , always so very informative .

Congrats on 100K Juan!

Oh wow! We are heading up there today for the Draft Horse Classic. But we will definitely be making another trip up soon to visit Nevada City and Grass Valley and their museums very soon! Love your channel.

love the topic...was part of growing up for me since development of the fan blades was my father's occupation back in the 60's

Mind-boggling present-day aviation tech, followed by significantly more understandable and extremely interesting gold mining tech from the CA gold rush. Great video, Juan, and congrats on reaching 100K subscribers.

VERY well deserved achieving 100,000 subs’ congratulations to you Sir! PS. I didn’t understand a word about the jet engine dynamics & science which you painstakingly articulated so brilliantly - BUT it was so utterly fascinating, I watched it TWICE! 🤣👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks Juan!! Just love the way you report the facts. Especially the Pelton Wheel!! OMG, LOVE the gold demo....... Such cool stuff. Weav And Congrats on the 100,000 subs!!! You have got to be feeling proud! You earned it! The public responded!

It's Saturday 7 AM in Bangkok and just walked the dog..Now your on the way to 500,000...hehe

Congratulations on 100k!

Congratulations on a well deserved 100K!

Really nice report. And that "bonus track" made me want to visit that gold mining town the next time I'm in US and have a reason to visit the west coast. And congratulations on the 100k subscribers too. It isn't too hard to get subscribers when you have good USP and manages to present the information in a way that is pleasant to view.

Congratulations on 100k subscribers , Juan !

I never heard that Pelton story before! As kids, we used to play on the Pelton Wheel off of Mill Street!

Congrats Juan!!!! 100k awesome!

Congrats on 100k. Also, thanks for the history lesson. I like stuff like that.

Congrats on 100K subs, it's only going to get bigger.

Congrats on the 100K!

Congratulations on 100,000 subs👏

First off, congrats on 100K! That 9X engine is a beast - I can't wait to see the 777X in flight.

Congrats Juan on a Hundred!

Congratulations on the subscribers. You made a good point in engine testing through the FAA. No rush needed, Boeing and the FAA have to regain some trust Internationally. Keep the videos coming!

Again another fine explanation of a complicated issue for the layman to fully understand the issues relating to Boeing and GE, thank you.

Congrats on the 100K!!

Congrats on the 100k subscribers! Interesting stuff on the Pelton Wheel and California history. I love your little interesting asides. You should host your own show like "California's Gold".

Congrats on the 100K subscribers Juan .

Congratulations, Juan - you earned it. Great presentation and explanations, as always.

Juan, a Hugh shout out to you on the 100K SUBS, and thanks on the engine update , as always. Cheers from NJ