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Kaius  ·  3674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Airbus may retire the A380 as soon as 2018

    Hughes H-4 Hercules: 8x3000HP radials = 24,000 HP Boeing 747-8: 4x67,000lb thrust turbofans = 400,000 HP

Is that the HP directly equivalent to the amount of thrust it produces? It looks like the Rolls Royce engine on the boeing could produce 50K lb of thrust, cannot seem to find the same for the H-4 but its probably down around 5K lbs?