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Re: Model Engines off topic but cool!
Posted by Jim Harley on Sun Dec 09, 2001 11:51:52 AM
In reply top Re: Model Engines posted by simon king on Sun Dec 09, 2001 10:55:06 AM
: certainly people have built quarter scale merlins but I do
: n't know whether they are available as a kit - always wond
: ered if they sound like the real thing - does anybody know
: ?
:
: Slightly off text, but definitely available as a kit are t
: he palm sized jet engines (or centrifugal compressor gas t
: urbine engines) made by Wren technologies - 3 inch in diam
: eter, weighs 1 lb and gives 6.25 lb thrust - see latest Ai
: r International for a picture - amazing!
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: sk
Check out this site http://www.bvmjets.com/
Turbine jet engines have been in the model scene going on ten years now..very cool and very expensive.
I remember at the Toledo Model airplane show Robart Products had a running...and for mass production a "copy" of a continental 220...the thing swung a 32" prop...very cool! err..how many parts in a real merlin?
jim