109,000 HP ...is that enough for you?
02-09-2009, 06:43 PM
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109,000 HP ...is that enough for you?
Just when you thought that Top Fuel cars were high horsepower...
Check out these specs and click the link for more info:
109,000 HP @ 102 RPM
5.5 million foot pounds of torque
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
Thanks samnavy, corrected the link.
Check out these specs and click the link for more info:
109,000 HP @ 102 RPM
5.5 million foot pounds of torque
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
Thanks samnavy, corrected the link.
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02-09-2009, 08:44 PM
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Wow. I've seen those pictures, but never read the specs before.
Five MILLION foot/lbs.
How do you measure that? Seems like it'd just pick up the building the dyno is in and throw it across town.
Five MILLION foot/lbs.
How do you measure that? Seems like it'd just pick up the building the dyno is in and throw it across town.
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02-09-2009, 10:52 PM
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I found this fact about that motor astonishing:
Even at its most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour.
The original F-14A in ZONE-5 afterburner at low altitude consumed 70kPPH... per engine. That's 140,000 lbs of fuel per hour... or 20,600 gallons per hour or 340 gallons per minute or 6 gallons per second.
The Tomcat carried 16,000 internal, and 3800 external... which means if a Tomcat "A" selected ZONE-5 off the catapult and never pulled the throttle back, he'd flame out in just over 8 minutes.
Even at its most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour.
The original F-14A in ZONE-5 afterburner at low altitude consumed 70kPPH... per engine. That's 140,000 lbs of fuel per hour... or 20,600 gallons per hour or 340 gallons per minute or 6 gallons per second.
The Tomcat carried 16,000 internal, and 3800 external... which means if a Tomcat "A" selected ZONE-5 off the catapult and never pulled the throttle back, he'd flame out in just over 8 minutes.
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02-09-2009, 11:17 PM
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They are also direct drive, meaning there is no transmission. So if they need reverse, they spin the engine backwards....very cool stuff!
edit: I think I am wrong with the compressed air being used on this engine to start it, I see a flywheel with teeth!
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02-10-2009, 08:18 AM
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Sounds familiar. When we built a pair of 2 megawatt AM transmitters about 10 years ago at the main factory in Quincy, IL, they were only able to run them at full power at night, and only after calling up the electrical supplier to inform them of the load, as well as to inform them when it was about to be switched off.
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02-10-2009, 08:52 AM
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I found this fact about that motor astonishing:
Even at its most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour.
The original F-14A in ZONE-5 afterburner at low altitude consumed 70kPPH... per engine. That's 140,000 lbs of fuel per hour... or 20,600 gallons per hour or 340 gallons per minute or 6 gallons per second.
Even at its most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour.
The original F-14A in ZONE-5 afterburner at low altitude consumed 70kPPH... per engine. That's 140,000 lbs of fuel per hour... or 20,600 gallons per hour or 340 gallons per minute or 6 gallons per second.
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