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What Else can a Jet Engine After Burner Do?

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Published on 07 Jun 2025 / In Film & Animation

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Lucifer333
Lucifer333 1 month ago

Yes these microturbines are great but by law their performance is limited, (ofc otherwise they would be put into all kids of DIY weapons and we dont want that)

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Lucifer333
Lucifer333 1 month ago
Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

By law their performance is limited... I have found that within reason and the limitations of physics and metalurgy etc... Well the microturbines - Aside from being very small - the absence of multi staging on the compressors and the fairly minimal "exhaust" stages...... Well they in a very simple sense, are a bit better than a car turbo charger with a combustor inserted between the compressor and the exhaust turbines - but not by a HUGE heap....... Without being any sort of a genius on the subject, that the mircroturbines, could be made to produce shit loads more power than what is currently on the market.... not including military..... What exists is much like Frank Whittles earliest turbines with the centripital compressor, a combustor stage and a couple of exhaust turbine blade sets.....

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@Lucifer333: Then to go into high bypass ratio engines..... No fucking idea.... Pulling a lack of real numbers out of my arse.... but a 20cm diameter turbine engine (bypass) with a 10cm diameter motor core, with proper multi staging and all that - it ought to produce many many times the thrust of a basic stage microturbine.... I have given a great deal of though to using a special type of cooling to the exhaust turbine blades... so that aside from the tensile limitations of Aluminium, it could be used as the whole motor core, in relation to the limits of it's softening temperature, making them very cheap and easy to produce.

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