On Wednesday 24 December 2014 05:24:33 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/23/2014 4:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Next step is to get the 17,000 rpm motor speed down to something > > > useful. > > > > Power turbine and a planetary gear? > > http://www.rc-airplanes-simplified.com/model-jet-engines.html > > Wondered how long it was going to take for the RC guys to come up with > a turboprop engine. Back when I flew FAI pattern, state of the art > was a YS 140 4 stroke motor, and jet engines were quite in their > infancy. > > Nice piece of engineering. > > Mark
I was impressed too, but what I was looking at is not the $75.00 .49 ci 2 stroker of yore, circa 1950. That looked like serious 2014 money, well north of $750 I'll bet. But it surprised me that the air intake was at the rear. Seems like a good opportunity to use the jets left over thrust was thrown away. And, since no one seems to have mentioned it yet, Merry Christmas everybody! Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
