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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Re: Jet engines...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.044015.11158@rtsg.mot.com>
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- References: <1ioof1INNmtj@ub.d.umn.edu> <1993Jan11.044646.13055@c3177208.ssr.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:40:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.044646.13055@c3177208.ssr.hp.com> bill@ssr.hp.com (Bill Chidester) writes:
- |Chris (cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu) wrote:
- |
- |: to ducted fan engines, how do they work? If there are rc jet engines,
- |: are the jet engines pulse jet or normal turbine jets?
- |
- | There are ram jets available, but nobody in their right mind will fly
- | them. As near as I can tell, 49% of the energy emitted is heat, 50%
- | is sound and about 1% is thrust.
-
- Those are not ramjets, those are pulsejets. And you can keep your right mind
- to yourself. :-)
-
- | A ducted fan engine uses an extremely nervous reciprocating engine to drive
- | a multibladed prop (or fan) inside a shroud. There are also stationary
- | blades which serve to "unscrew" the air, resulting in a more laminar airflow
-
- Laminar? I think not.
-
- | Trainers should be like first girlfriends. You will learn a lot more with
- | one that's big, cheap and slow than you will with fast, good looking and
- | expensive.
-
- Well, aside from the distateful sexism of that remark, he is right. Leave the
- ducted fans for a while.
-
- On the other hand, a really fun little airplane that could be a second or
- third airplane of a talented student is the Fantrainer. From MAN plans,
- the little airplane uses a Cox TD .049 and a three-bladed pusher prop in
- a little shroud. While not good for rank beginners, it is small, and
- cheap, and easy to scratch-build.
-
- Dave Svoboda, Palatine, IL
-