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Gas turbine engines, commonly called "jet" engines, could do that. The key to a practical jet engine was the gas turbine, used to extract energy from the engine itself to drive the compressor. The gas turbine was not an idea developed in the 1930s: the patent for a stationary turbine was granted to John Barber in England in 1791.
The XP-81 first flew in December 1945, the first aircraft to use a combination of turboprop and turbojet power. The XC-113, with T31 in the No. 2 position. The T31 engine was the first American turboprop engine to power an aircraft. [5] It made its initial flight in the Consolidated Vultee XP-81 on 21 December 1945.
This article outlines the important developments in the history of the development of the air-breathing (duct) jet engine.Although the most common type, the gas turbine powered jet engine, was certainly a 20th-century invention, many of the needed advances in theory and technology leading to this invention were made well before this time.
The teardrop-shaped openings along the outer edge of the turbine are the air channels used to cool the blades. Cutaway of J35 combustor dome Cutaway of J35 fuel atomizer. The engine had its starter and accessories (fuel control, fuel pump, oil pumps, hydraulic pump, RPM generator) [3] mounted in the center of the compressor inlet. This ...
A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. [1] The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the power-producing part (known as the gas generator or core) and are, in the direction of flow: a rotating gas compressor; a combustor; a compressor-driving turbine.
The first gas turbine to successfully run self-sustaining was built in 1903 by Norwegian engineer Ægidius Elling. [4] Such engines did not reach manufacture due to issues of safety, reliability, weight and, especially, sustained operation. The first patent for using a gas turbine to power an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Maxime Guillaume.
The Rover 1S60 is a gas turbine manufactured by Rover Company and the first industrial type for production [1] Many were used for aircraft such as Auxiliary power units for groundcrew and Auxiliary Airborne Power Plants on aircraft. [2] Other uses of the Rover 1S60 was used as fire pumps and Auxiliary generators on hovercraft.
As well as being one of the first engines to feature a free propeller turbine, the Theseus was the first turboprop in the world to pass a type test in January 1947. [3] Following 156 hours of ground runs and the receipt of a test certificate from the Ministry of Supply on 28 January 1947, two Theseus engines were fitted in the outer positions ...