Aw, so it's a tank engine, not aircraft one.
Son, I'm dissappointed.
Flip this is brilliant!!Don't take it personal yall, Reika's brilliant.. just not so hot at the whole human interaction thing
Tank engines are started with gas turbines, the same engine classification of a jet engine.Aw, so it's a tank engine, not aircraft one.
Son, I'm dissappointed.
For those who TL;DR'ed (which you really should not have):Upon being disappointed about aircraft engines vs. tank engines:
As mentioned before, both are gas turbines. A gas turbine is a brayton cycle internal combustion engine with a large compressor for air intake. What you use it for doesn't matter so much for the purposes of calling it a gas turbine.
The interesting thing about these babies is that you can almost freely decide how you want the power output to happen. You can build a gas turbine that outputs just about all its power through a jet exhaust, reserving only just enough for shaft power to drive its own compressor. If you do that, you get a jet engine. However, you can also take a nearly identical gas turbine and build it so that it outputs almost all its power as shaft power, reserving only just enough "thrust" to push the exhaust out of the combustion chamber. You can then stick something on that rotating shaft, like a propeller. Suddenly, the same kind of engine powers both a propeller airplane (turboprop) and a jet airplane (turbojet), and even a hybrid between the two (turbofan). Is your mind blown yet?
And of course, instead of a propeller you can also stick an electricity generator on there, to create power for your city - or for a tank's electric motors.
Gas turbines are extremely awesome, useful and multipurpose devices and you should totally read up on all the things they can do. Heck, someone wants to build a millimeter sized one for on-person power production to recharge your phone on the go and stuff...
Am I the only one who thinks it takes a special kind of crazy to be willing to make, use, and ride in homemade turbomachinery?I do know about gas turbines and what can they power, and I know that M1 is powered by one of those. My "disappointment" was simply the fact that I like aircraft, but not tanks.
Also, RoC gas turbine looks more like a turbofan, though it's obviously a turboshaft
Actually, I was kinda interested because tank can be more difficult to power via jet engine, but it seems like the transmission of the M1 is nothing special.
Another interesting thing about that Honeywell is that it's stated that it eats diesel fuel and gasoline. (The latter seems questionable for me, though)
Also, jetboats (using a modified heli engine, AFAIR):
That guy has a lot of interesting videos about jet engines, too
Maybe I have seen too many people of people working on jet engines made of soup cans, and then standing around while revving the thing to max power without any safety gear.
Hahaha .. I'd pay to watch that.Maybe I have seen too many people of people working on jet engines made of soup cans, and then standing around while revving the thing to max power without any safety gear.
