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Article #3890Re: Jet engine
From: Stealth Pilot
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:28
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:28
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Chris runs Diesel Engine Services and Spares.ph 08 9478 1877 Stealth Pilot >G'day stealth could you email me contact details for this chap in Perth >please . >Cheers >PC > >>> jet engine i plan to build with the help of an enginer ( hes only going >to >>> make sure it's safe and i'll do everything else. If anyone here has any >>> advice on how to make it as in what materials to make it out off or how >to >>> make it efficient i would love to hear them. > >can I give your project a sizeable leap forward? >most of the small gas turbine engines are actually dreadfully >primitive and not worth the effort at building except as curios. > >the very best of the crop is produced in Perth West Aust. by Turbine >Engine Technologies. The guy concerned, Chris Monkley, is a go getter >with the financials to carry off his projects correctly. He >demonstrated to me a gas turbine about 5" dia and about a foot long >that had a fadec control unit. started absolutely reliably and >delivered something like 14lbs thrust. To get them right he has GE >cast the turbine rotors for him in the correct alloys as a mono >crystal investment casting. He retails the unit for $aus4,400. >If you want to play with small gas turbine engines I'd suggest >starting with Chris's unit. It is immaculately put together. >Stealth Pilot > > >
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