Talk:S-duct

rewrite intro so that it does not contain a list--Christopher Kraus (talk) 23:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Intro
It would help to explain more about what the design is and what differentiates it from other designs. I went to this article to see what an S-duct design is. I still cannot tell. All that I can tell from this article is that an S-duct design is a different design from a non-s-duct design. 76.199.4.207 (talk) 21:36, 25 December 2010 (UTC)ATBS

Tupolev Tu-154M
Tupolev Tu-154M Still in limited production! See aircraft's wiki page. If this is incorrect, please advise. I have modified the S-duct article to reflect this. --Arrows98 (talk) 01:56, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Needs to be expanded
Currently the list of aircraft includes planes like the F-35 Lightning and Eurofighter Typhoon. The F-35 features a serpentine duct for the purpose of screening the turbine inlet from hostile radar. This is a totally different application of a serpentine duct, which isn't even mentioned in the text. The text says a serpentine duct is something that is used in trijet airliners, and then goes on to list several twin engine jet fighters on the list of planes that use the design. This is confusing at best. The F-35, B-1B and B-2 all use serpentine ducts to screen the turbine face from radar, which is totally differnt. I'm not sure if the F-18E/F uses one or not. It also lists the Typhoon; if this is true, I'm not sure why they have one, since the shape of the inlet itself is totally unstealthy, along with the canards. If it is just referring to aircraft that use curved ducts between the inlet and the compressor face, we'd have to include a large number of jet aircraft, as very few actually use straight-shot inlet ducts. The article needs to be expanded to cover the other uses and defintions of "serpentine duct", or the non-trijet aircraft ought to be removed.

Idumea47b (talk) 01:51, 14 July 2019 (UTC)