Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Dec 7, 8:41 am, wrote:

I guess that the heat problem on the tail will clearly appear with the
new engine (twice the thrust of the actual one)-

Ah, and is this idle speculation, or can you demonstrate it?

If, as claimed, the engine burns the same amount of fuel, and it's a
high bypass engine, then my idle speculation is the air temperature at
the tail will be significantly lower.

A turbofan would make the jets much more appealing for glider use,
perhaps at the cost of wider opening in the fuselage.

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