to me it looks like some sort of heater (or jet engine?) mounted on the front of a 375, I can only assume to melt snow? does any one know any thing about these?
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I found this picture on an unrelated website
to me it looks like some sort of heater (or jet engine?) mounted on the front of a 375, I can only assume to melt snow? does any one know any thing about these?
to me it looks like some sort of heater (or jet engine?) mounted on the front of a 375, I can only assume to melt snow? does any one know any thing about these?
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They are used at airports to clear snow off the runways.
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They are aircraft engines, probably obsolete or timed out MiG turbojets.
As if the -375 doesn't use enough fuel already!
As if the -375 doesn't use enough fuel already!
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Fastship wrote:They are aircraft engines, probably obsolete or timed out MiG turbojets.
As if the -375 doesn't use enough fuel already!
hahah wow and i´m complaning about my car spending fuel to fast guess that thing has both the yellow tank full of fuel and a another one on standby
wonder if the truck is running on jetfuel A1
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Nah, the truck won't be coz jet fuel is pretty much just kerosene(a cutting fluid), which isn't really usable in a piston engine unless you add a lubricant, also you have to vaporise kerosene in order to get it to burn properly i.e. the engine needs additional equipment & setup to do so.
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they are copies of the rolls royce nene engine, labour idiots gave them the design and specs and never got a penny for it...they the Russians could not understand how to build the axial flow engines and kept blowing themselves up so they asked the labour government of the time and some soviet sympathiser idiot in the labour government gave them the engine...The Americans were non too happy as the copy gave the mig 15 a performance almost the equal of the F86 Sabre...
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That's very true, totally treacherous socialists and they are still around although Whittle himself was a commited socialist until the state stole his company from under him and he became a Conservative!paulob1 wrote:they are copies of the rolls royce nene engine, labour idiots gave them the design and specs and never got a penny for it...they the Russians could not understand how to build the axial flow engines and kept blowing themselves up so they asked the labour government of the time and some soviet sympathiser idiot in the labour government gave them the engine...The Americans were non too happy as the copy gave the mig 15 a performance almost the equal of the F86 Sabre...
At the same time Whittle's Power Jets design was gifted to the Americans who were also struggling to perfect the concept, ceding commercial dominance to their industry. It said that if Whittle's engine had been adopted by the air ministry when he offered it World War two would never have taken place. He actually conceptualised his design in the 1920's and as late as the mid 1930's couldn't afford the £5 patent renewal fee. The air ministry and Royal Air Force repeatedly dismissed him and his design and also refused to pay the £5 and let the patent lapse. The reasons why he was not taken seriously lie strongly in the British class system which was dominant at the time - Whittle was the son of a mechanic from Coventry and not genuine "officer material" donchya know...