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  2. Aircraft engine starting - Wikipedia

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    An interesting feature of all three German jet engine designs that saw production of any kind before May 1945 (the German BMW 003, Junkers Jumo 004 and Heinkel HeS 011 axial-flow turbojet engine designs) was the starter system, which consisted of a Riedel 10 hp (7.5 kW) flat twin two-stroke air-cooled engine hidden in the intake, and ...

  3. Pratt & Whitney PW1000G - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the PW1000G start up sequence took about seven minutes, compared to one to two and a half minute startups on the similar CFM56 and IAE V2500 engines; hardware fixes and software upgrades decreased the time required by a little over a minute, and cooling down both engines at the same time saved slightly over two minutes, for a total ...

  4. Jet aircraft - Wikipedia

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    A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines. Whereas the engines in propeller-powered aircraft generally achieve their maximum efficiency at much lower speeds and altitudes, jet engines achieve maximum efficiency at speeds close to or even well above the speed of sound .

  5. Revving engines, fighter jets and classical tunes: The ... - AOL

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    Electric cars must emit a pedestrian alert sound at lower speeds, but automakers' sound designers have plenty of creative freedom. Revving engines, fighter jets and classical tunes: The ...

  6. Pratt & Whitney J57 - Wikipedia

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    The engine was produced from 1951 to 1965 with a total of 21,170 built. Many J57 models shipped since 1954 contained 7-15% of titanium, by dry weight. Commercially pure titanium was used in the inlet case and low-pressure compressor case, whereas the low-pressure rotor assembly was made up of 6Al-4V titanium alloy blades, discs and disc spacers.

  7. 11 photos of America's fighter jets breaking the sound barrier

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    This is what it looks like when the Air Force tests its jet engines This chart shows the incredible cost of operating the US Air Force's most expensive planes US general: China's airpower will ...

  8. Auxiliary power unit - Wikipedia

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    The first German jet engines built during the Second World War used a mechanical APU starting system designed by the German engineer Norbert Riedel.It consisted of a 10 horsepower (7.5 kW) two-stroke flat engine, which for the Junkers Jumo 004 design was hidden in the engine nose cone, essentially functioning as a pioneering example of an auxiliary power unit for starting a jet engine.

  9. Pratt & Whitney JT8D - Wikipedia

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    The Pratt & Whitney JT8D is a low-bypass (0.96 to 1) turbofan engine introduced by Pratt & Whitney in February 1963 with the inaugural flight of the Boeing 727.It was a modification of the Pratt & Whitney J52 turbojet engine which powered the US Navy A-6 Intruder and A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft.