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unusual facts about Turbine engine



Parachute School of Toronto

The drop zone operates one piston-powered aircraft (a Cessna 206) and seasonally leases (May through October) one Turbine engine aircraft.


see also

Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine

Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine (AATE) program is a project of the U.S. Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate and is intended to validate technologies needed to achieve the aggressive performance goals of the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP).

Induction generator

In generator operation, a prime mover (turbine, engine) drives the rotor above the synchronous speed.

International Turbine Engine Corporation

The International Turbine Engine Corporation (ITEC) is a joint venture between Honeywell Aerospace (formerly Garrett AiResearch, and later AlliedSignal), and the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC).

Peening

In the early 1970s peening experienced a major innovation when researchers such as Allan Clauer at Battelle labs in Columbus, Ohio applied high intensity laser beams onto metal components to achieve deep compressive residual stresses, which they patented as Laser Shock Peening, and became known as laser peening in the late 1990s, when it was first applied to gas fired turbine engine fan blades for the U.S. Air Force.

Turbojet development at the RAE

In 1936 ARC, now under the direction of Henry Tizard, returned to the turbine engine concept after learning that Whittle was going ahead with his designs at his new company, Power Jets.