@K1w1scot It's designed to have minimal effect. Pressure at the inlet is measured and compared to ambient, and the two are compared to get the loss caused by the safety screen. Small, but used in calculation of power generated.
@AgentJayZ Really? Have to look. I have been wondering something. In engines like the LM2500, how do fuel/hydraulics like the VSV system work without liquid fuel pressure when running on propane?
@Ilicium In the industrial engines, the VSVs are run with power from a separate pump, but it is pumping the engine lube oil.
So the oil system has two pressure pumps at least, delivering oil through filters to the VSV system as well as the bearings, and several scavenge pumps returning the oil through filters to a remote reservoir
@TheRguru1 Rolls Royce afterburning turbofans... also the current wold land speed record holding engine. Two of them in Thrust SSC. Also the subject of a couple of engine test videos I have up...
description said Vulcan has afterburner....vulcan didnt use afterburner, except one with had 5 engines. 4 normal and 1 olympus with AB, used as a testbed
@GTADriver64 This is an industrial Olympus more closely related to the engines in the Vulcan Bomber. The 593, used in the Concorde was a more powerful development. Plans to create an industrial version of the 593 were never carried out by Rolls Royce. The GE LM2500 has largely taken over the market niche that the industrial Olympus was competing for.
I felt like hot air was coming to my nose when the turbine was raising rpm and was recorded from aside and was like "what is that smeel? Something's burning up."
@snehesten I don't know... I started putting up engine test videos in 2007 because at that time all I could find were videos on the little RC engines.
Yes, no industrial though, Marine engines only, mainly Oly, Tyne & Spey, our Navy still use them and a lot of Foreign navies, we also had some input over the last couple of years on the only Vulcan they have managed to get flying again, see video: pity won't let me post the link, if you Google: 'Bruntingthorpe Vulcan' it will bring up plenty of info and videos of it.
Nice to see one of our engines still going out there I probably worked on that very engine in one way or another being that I am based at the place named on the first nameplate, we still repair and overhaul these engines as I did the Vulcan Oly and that was in the early '70's!
The Olympus Vulcan was not around too long like the Vulcan's we know today that were used in service from the 1950's until the early 1990's when they were retired.
@johnp94 This one is an industrial Mk 2022. It's related to the engines in the Vulcan, but it was designed for use in power generation and ship propulsion.
hey thanks for the video. I'm studying aeronautical engineering and wanted to see inlet guide vanes in action. cleared up what i wasn't sure about. good work fella.
@MrATWX The VC-10 used the Conway, which was about half the size of an olympus. The Conway was one of the first bypass engines, also known as turbofans.
The olympus was a turbojet, with no bypass airflow.
@AgentJayZ The Conway was the first bypass engine, as well as being totally developed by Rolls-Royce where the Olympus was a Bristol engine.
But thats the Industrial engine, so this was tailored to ground usage - for example in the UK - they were used in Power Stations as auxilliary generator sets.
@ahart55301 This is an industrial version more closely related to the non-afterburning Olympus used in the Vulcan bomber.
The Concorde used the Mk593, which was upgraded in many ways to be a more powerful engine... and then it was blessed with an afterburner ( "reheat" in RR-speak)
@AgentJayZ The Olympus Vulcan did actually use rolls royce 4 afterburning engines briefly in the late 1950's and early 1960's until it was retired in 1965. In fact these engines were the precursor to the afterburning engines used in the future Concorde.
"The Olympus is the engine used in the Concorde, and the Vulcan Bomber. Both used four Olympus engines, each with an afterburner".
Sorry, none of the Vulcan Olympus types had afterburner fitted. The Vulcan had provision for RATO (Rocket assisted take-off) pods; I never saw them in use though. The RATO units could be fitted between 1 and 2 engines on the port side, and 3-4 on the starboard side.
Thats a really sick noise it makes when its first starting - like the Deathstar:D
The complete plant must have a lot more stuff added to it, such as a silencer (please!), inlet air cleaner and so forth, not to mention perhaps heat recovery for cogeneration (it must produce enough waste heat to warm every home in my town!).
Also, can I buy direct? I can ruin soo many neighbours garden parties playing with this baby in my shed:D
@TheMrCJist Silencers, yes. When a modern natural gas fired powerplant is running six or more of these engines, the noise outside the facility can be barely noticeable.
Co-generation is one way of improving overall plant efficiency.
I think I would need to sell the car, remortgage the house, pawn every item I own, get a second job. not have any living expenses for the next ten years and rewind the credit crunch with a time machine to just about own one of these babies.
I like the company name - Maddex turbine services. Because mail ordering a real Concorde engine as an adult toy (not that kind!) and letting the missus know you paid for it will make her hopping mad and very likely an 'ex' in short order . :D
Designed and made by Bristol Aero Engines, so Bristol Olympus (or at least it was originally). RR took over support when all British aero engine production was centralised by the last labour government but one.
@JeyOmatix I'm sure they could find a way to fit your M3 to one of these engines. You would have to pay cash up front of course & the funeral plan or an ejector seat would be optional. Fuel consumtion could be a slightly limiting factor to be considered on long trips as well. Will give new meaning to "Roast the opposition" though.(Wouldn't want to be behind you at the traffic lights!)
Hahaha!!! Well, long trips wouldn't be long anymore so even if the fuel consumption is as high as a Boeing, the time I'll take to get from A to B will so short that I'd probably be considered as "eco-friendly"
...Already chose my tombstone design! :D "RIP, roast in peace"
The later series Olympus engines use an extra low pressure stage to increase overall thrust performance. The 593 was actually a whole new overhaul of the 320.
@chrismkay3 Part of the reason we show the test runs on Youtube is so the customer representatives who are not able to attend the actual test can see it.
...and really, what does surplus mean? Extra, not needed or wanted, of no use and so for sale at scrap prices...?
No, none of the engines in my videos fit that description.
They all have a job to do, and that's why money is being spent on keeping them running.
@AgentJayZ If you do have any vids of a Pratt & Whitney j-58 startup, could you please post it? I believe it requires a single 450 cubic metre chevy engine as a starter motor... You'll be knowing this but i'll just say it. Two of these lovely ladies were used on the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird...
@pelagic6 The engines in the Vulcan are closely related to this industrial version. The Concorde used Olympus 593's, which were updated and uprated... heavily hot-rodded versions of the Olympus which have quite a different appearance.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to use a marine turbine to get that 40,000 horsepower instead of an engine originally designed for thrust? Because those are designed for SHP not thrust. Or do the marine engines just cost that much more where it's not worth it?
Very hard to test one of this engines, you will probably need 15 to 20 yeas of xp to get there. I'm going to be an A&P tech in about 1 year and this is my life.
Its always fun to see these engines bench tested. Several times been inside siemens formely alstoms of lincoln, who build and service gas turbines and test them in large armored rooms to destruction sometimes. their reliability is absolutely astounding, they are unbelievably good! but rarely they have had some eventually explode you could see the marks inside the room on the walls still lol
Nice video! I wanna ask you: this kind of engines are used in Boeing 737-200 comercial jets? I guess so cause it sounds alike.. sorry if what I´m asking you is kind of obvious, and my English is not good either.. but I enjoyed a lot this video so I wanted to comment on it
@AgentJayZ i LOVE pratt&whitney! especally thier JT9D turbofans those are BEASTS of engines to bad most of the aircraft using the JT9D are retired due to age and the fuel consumption of the JT9D
I figured the Concorde used a Turbo Fan engine instid of a Turbo Jet. Just like that of the B-1 Lancer. Of course the 1st Lancer had engines that produced up to 37,000 pounds of thurst, but they were derated for the B1B.
All modern fighters use a low bypass turbofan, because it is more efficient, and the afterburner works even better because the combined exhaust flow from the core and the bypass has more available oxygen than the exhaust from a turbojet.
The Olympus is one of the few dual spool turbojets out there.
The F/A 18 Hornet (A-D) was the only modern figher to use a Low by pass turbo jet engine (GE: F-404) each capabable of over 18,000 lbs thurst each. Of course with the Super Hornet; bought the use of a more, modern Turbo Fan (GE:F-414) So, therefore the legacy hornet is the only fighter used in the U.S Navy that uses engines simular to the older A-4 and F-4 Phantom jets.
actualy many fighters use turbofans. they make much more power and are much more efficent. because not all of the thrusting air and gas has to go through the compressor power and turbine sections of the engines it can come straight from the fan where it is still cold from altitude and doesent need to bend around inside the engine. all you need to do is slow the incoming air to below mach and let the engine gulp it up check out movalble ducts like whats on the f-15 its neat
no the concorde is a turbo jet because in order to get a turbo fan to operate at altitude you have to slow the incoming airstream to a certian velocity before the engine can make any trust. a turbo fan can operate at a higher inlet velocity (still below sonic) but higher
I bet a Ram Jet could fix that problem. That was part of the technology used on the SR-71 Black Bird. As a matter of fact is was simular to a Turbo fan in which the motor had a fan-assisted ramjet.
@Skippy585 sort of. the engines used in the black bird were actualy a turbo jet untill about mach 3 then there were bypass tubes that fed ram pressure air from the pre compressor stage directly into the power section of the engine because the aircraft was moving so fast this gave the proper pressure wall for the burning fuel to push against (how jet engine basicly works is expanding fuel pushes against the pressure wall behind it expanding into the turbine section) thus becoming more efficent
Ok, so there in comming air was moved directly into the combustion stage of the engine. Yes it was acting more like a high by pass engine above mach 2.
The J58 in the SR71 did act as a ramjet above a certain speed. ( not sure of the transition point).
Bypass is a term describing that portion of the airflow that is diverted around the combustors and turbines of the engine, also some of the compressor stages.
The term does not apply to the J58, because when acting as a ramjet, all of the intake air is being mixed with fuel and burned in the combustion section.
It is a very interesting design of engine. I'm not aware of any other like it.
Saw a Vulcan at an airshow in Auburn, Maine. It was 1981. I believe the Vulcan was out of Waddington AFB in England. It was by far the LOUDEST aircraft I've ever heard. Gave me chills. Too bad the mighty Vulcan and also the Concorde are out of service. Shame. Any other planes use Rolls Royce Olympus engines? Didn't the Lockheed L-10111 use them? Is that airliner still in service.
I've seen the Vulcan fly up close and personal, she's a magnificent aircraft. And the howling sound of those Olympus engines really made my day when she came in for short final!
I was also lucky enough to see a Vulcan fly, at an airshow in Bellingham, Washington way back when.
It was incredible at full power, but when it approached the field in what was called a stealth approach - engines at min power, it was silent until right on top of us.
There was one of these (well, the marine version, but not that far from this) in the Turunmaa class gunboats (corvettes) of the Finnish Navy. The propulsion system was state-of-the-art in the 60s.
NO way only 4,000 to 8,000 RPMS, wow i always thought i would be like red line rpms more than 10,000 so i can rev up rpms in my car i beat a jet engine LOL
With this engine, and our aluminum screen, you would stick to it for a fraction of a second, and then you would be taken, along with the screen, into the engine.
... That would be the operator in the CAT skid-steer loader activating the high-flow hydraulic pump to drive the hydraulic starter motor to get the HP system spinning up.
It's a tiny thumbwheel on the right-hand controller.
Strange - to start a 40,000 Hp engine with a tiny movement of your thumb.
Yes, we are unconventional, and we get things done in Jet City.
THANKS FOR GLOBAL WARMING EARTHQUAKES STORMS WIND AND RAIN
bobodd5 3 weeks ago
@bobodd5 Earthquakes? ... that, and the all capitals thing indicates the level of understanding posessed.
Thanks for your input...
AgentJayZ 3 weeks ago 6
@bobodd5 stay in the dark ages fool
sotaros93 1 week ago
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@sotaros93 stay in the dark ages fool
bobodd5 1 week ago
Any issues with the mesh in front of the bell mouth causing compressor stalls at all? Must create merry hell with the airflow
K1w1scot 1 month ago
@K1w1scot It's designed to have minimal effect. Pressure at the inlet is measured and compared to ambient, and the two are compared to get the loss caused by the safety screen. Small, but used in calculation of power generated.
AgentJayZ 1 month ago
Running it on propane? What is the starter running on? Air, electric?
Ilicium 1 month ago
@Ilicium The Olympus has a hydraulic starter. More views of it in my other olympus videos.
AgentJayZ 1 month ago
@AgentJayZ Really? Have to look. I have been wondering something. In engines like the LM2500, how do fuel/hydraulics like the VSV system work without liquid fuel pressure when running on propane?
Ilicium 1 month ago
@Ilicium In the industrial engines, the VSVs are run with power from a separate pump, but it is pumping the engine lube oil.
So the oil system has two pressure pumps at least, delivering oil through filters to the VSV system as well as the bearings, and several scavenge pumps returning the oil through filters to a remote reservoir
AgentJayZ 1 month ago
@AgentJayZ Thanks for the info. Always interesting to see how the engineering problems are handled.
Ilicium 1 month ago
yeaaah im a freak!
i love that!
Omarturkol 2 months ago
i want a rolls royce jet engine for my rolls royce phantom!
TheRguru1 4 months ago 2
@TheRguru1 The "Rolls Royce" Phantoms actually used Speys. Two Olympus engines wouldn't fit.
AgentJayZ 4 months ago
@AgentJayZ Speys? WTF R THOSE?
TheRguru1 4 months ago
@TheRguru1 Rolls Royce afterburning turbofans... also the current wold land speed record holding engine. Two of them in Thrust SSC. Also the subject of a couple of engine test videos I have up...
AgentJayZ 4 months ago
@AgentJayZ oh, i understand!
TheRguru1 4 months ago
@AgentJayZ Er - I think he means thr RR Phantom as in the motorcar, not the McDonnell heavy fighter.
and321now 3 months ago
@AgentJayZ you know he was joking right?!
turkishflight1010 2 months ago
I can tell 4 of them mounted on one plane is pretty dangerous -- Just like mounted on the Concorde. quite a powerful engine.
StealthCessnaCombats 4 months ago
I want my car to sound like this when starting up.
Trip7Jinxy 5 months ago
didnt concorde have Rolls Royce Olympus mk2
thetrainsrock 5 months ago
.01 mpg?
ShadowGKCP 8 months ago 10
@ShadowGKCP less than that. It's bolted to a stationary frame.
AgentJayZ 8 months ago 71
@AgentJayZ ahaha i get it
ShadowGKCP 8 months ago
@AgentJayZ Lmao, smartass.
kinsley2108 6 months ago
@AgentJayZ even if it wasn't, it likely would be GPM not MPG!
j4cko56 5 months ago
description said Vulcan has afterburner....vulcan didnt use afterburner, except one with had 5 engines. 4 normal and 1 olympus with AB, used as a testbed
abhiginimav 9 months ago 4
@abhiginimav You are correct...
AgentJayZ 9 months ago 3
Is This the engine of the Concorde?
GTADriver64 10 months ago 7
@GTADriver64 This is an industrial Olympus more closely related to the engines in the Vulcan Bomber. The 593, used in the Concorde was a more powerful development. Plans to create an industrial version of the 593 were never carried out by Rolls Royce. The GE LM2500 has largely taken over the market niche that the industrial Olympus was competing for.
AgentJayZ 10 months ago 4
Thats a big turbojet!!!!!!!!
matthewdaniel1000 10 months ago
I felt like hot air was coming to my nose when the turbine was raising rpm and was recorded from aside and was like "what is that smeel? Something's burning up."
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
freris6991 10 months ago
Is it large amounts of videos about aviation on youtube, and barely anything from other lines of work? Or am I just subconsciously drawn to these...
snehesten 11 months ago
@snehesten I don't know... I started putting up engine test videos in 2007 because at that time all I could find were videos on the little RC engines.
AgentJayZ 11 months ago
yup. the british airways supersonic Concorde had four of those engines
SuperSupernova21 11 months ago
My father woeked on the 593 at filton for concorde in the 70's
Nice to hear the music again
AIRANORAK 11 months ago
How the heck am I supposed to fit THAT on my bike?
st8oftheart 11 months ago
Yes, no industrial though, Marine engines only, mainly Oly, Tyne & Spey, our Navy still use them and a lot of Foreign navies, we also had some input over the last couple of years on the only Vulcan they have managed to get flying again, see video: pity won't let me post the link, if you Google: 'Bruntingthorpe Vulcan' it will bring up plenty of info and videos of it.
TheQuicksilver580 1 year ago
Nice to see one of our engines still going out there I probably worked on that very engine in one way or another being that I am based at the place named on the first nameplate, we still repair and overhaul these engines as I did the Vulcan Oly and that was in the early '70's!
TheQuicksilver580 1 year ago
@TheQuicksilver580 I think that's fantastic. I was not aware the RR still supported these.
Good to hear from you.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
The afterburning engine Vulcan's had too many crashes in the early 1960's.
BBQFanNo1 1 year ago
The Olympus Vulcan was not around too long like the Vulcan's we know today that were used in service from the 1950's until the early 1990's when they were retired.
BBQFanNo1 1 year ago
what olympus' are these
johnp94 1 year ago
@johnp94 This one is an industrial Mk 2022. It's related to the engines in the Vulcan, but it was designed for use in power generation and ship propulsion.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
@AgentJayZ aaah cool however you cannot beat the olympus 201 engines at full power with the famous howl
johnp94 1 year ago
I thought it had an after burner!!
matthewdaniel1000 10 months ago
@MrATWX was used on concorde and the vulcan
MrHyper728 1 year ago
Also used to power ships!
hocuspokus1 1 year ago
hey thanks for the video. I'm studying aeronautical engineering and wanted to see inlet guide vanes in action. cleared up what i wasn't sure about. good work fella.
jambosantino 1 year ago
very good in ships
helstontvx 1 year ago
@MrATWX The VC-10 used the Conway, which was about half the size of an olympus. The Conway was one of the first bypass engines, also known as turbofans.
The olympus was a turbojet, with no bypass airflow.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago 2
@AgentJayZ The Conway was the first bypass engine, as well as being totally developed by Rolls-Royce where the Olympus was a Bristol engine.
But thats the Industrial engine, so this was tailored to ground usage - for example in the UK - they were used in Power Stations as auxilliary generator sets.
johnfromdon 1 year ago
Isn't that what was on the Concorde?
ahart55301 1 year ago 2
@ahart55301 This is an industrial version more closely related to the non-afterburning Olympus used in the Vulcan bomber.
The Concorde used the Mk593, which was upgraded in many ways to be a more powerful engine... and then it was blessed with an afterburner ( "reheat" in RR-speak)
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
@AgentJayZ The Olympus Vulcan did actually use rolls royce 4 afterburning engines briefly in the late 1950's and early 1960's until it was retired in 1965. In fact these engines were the precursor to the afterburning engines used in the future Concorde.
BBQFanNo1 1 year ago
@ahart55301 yes, Rolls Royce Snecma Olympus 593's to be precise.
trekliquid55 1 year ago
how much is for the Olympus?
slowshow111 1 year ago
@slowshow111
from a previous answer: Anywhere from the price of a car to a house, depending on engine configuration and modifications ordered.
Call Brian at Maddex Turbine services Ltd.
or
Robin at S&S Turbine services Ltd.
Both companies have websites.
Each has a wide variety of engines at very reasonable prices.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
@slowshow111 Oh Man, Maybe, $AU One Million Dollars of each Or More, I don't know , you ask Rolls Royce Company Boss. maybe
john1966elliott 1 year ago
how much is for that power plant?
slowshow111 1 year ago
I just went from 6 tom midnight
Aaronchi123 1 year ago
"The Olympus is the engine used in the Concorde, and the Vulcan Bomber. Both used four Olympus engines, each with an afterburner".
Sorry, none of the Vulcan Olympus types had afterburner fitted. The Vulcan had provision for RATO (Rocket assisted take-off) pods; I never saw them in use though. The RATO units could be fitted between 1 and 2 engines on the port side, and 3-4 on the starboard side.
longjoeblake 1 year ago
ahhh the x-files again!!! ahhh! lol. awesome! i love jet engines! so powerful!!
boxa888 1 year ago
Thats a really sick noise it makes when its first starting - like the Deathstar:D
The complete plant must have a lot more stuff added to it, such as a silencer (please!), inlet air cleaner and so forth, not to mention perhaps heat recovery for cogeneration (it must produce enough waste heat to warm every home in my town!).
Also, can I buy direct? I can ruin soo many neighbours garden parties playing with this baby in my shed:D
TheMrCJist 1 year ago
@TheMrCJist Silencers, yes. When a modern natural gas fired powerplant is running six or more of these engines, the noise outside the facility can be barely noticeable.
Co-generation is one way of improving overall plant efficiency.
And yes, we have an Olympus for sale right now.
Also RR Avons, Speys, GE LM1500s, and Orendas.
Call us at 250-785-5272 for GE Products
or 250-262-2030 for Rolls Royce.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
@AgentJayZ
I think I would need to sell the car, remortgage the house, pawn every item I own, get a second job. not have any living expenses for the next ten years and rewind the credit crunch with a time machine to just about own one of these babies.
I like the company name - Maddex turbine services. Because mail ordering a real Concorde engine as an adult toy (not that kind!) and letting the missus know you paid for it will make her hopping mad and very likely an 'ex' in short order . :D
TheMrCJist 1 year ago
Im looking to go into a field just like this...would this be considered Aerospace Engineering?
TheYoungTurds1 1 year ago
Sounds like Thunderbird 2 lol
FrontSideBus 1 year ago
Designed and made by Bristol Aero Engines, so Bristol Olympus (or at least it was originally). RR took over support when all British aero engine production was centralised by the last labour government but one.
oml81mm 1 year ago
at 0:17 it sounds like, don't mess with me
hootergirlsrhot 1 year ago
I wish i understood these damn how do they start? how much air is coming out of that what type of power is in this thing
Liquadia 1 year ago
arn't these the same tipe of engine on the b 52
AirShowFan22 1 year ago
@AirShowFan22 No, the B-52 has had a couple of different engines throughout its history, and there has been talk of fitting them with four turbofans.
Rather than repeating what is already out there, I suggest you check out any of the great B-52 sources out there.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
@AirShowFan22 no B-52's use pratt&whitney turbojets and turbofans [turbojets are on older models]
teletubbykiller23 1 year ago
so which were louder, concord or vulcan engines?
Mark1Spitfire 1 year ago
@Mark1Spitfire i'm guessing the Concorde, because its Olympus 593 engines were much more powerful, and fitted with an afterburner.
Compared to the Vulcan's non-AB Olys.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
@Mark1Spitfire Concorde by far, you would to have had plugged your ears it's so loud. Very loud whine.
Shudder51 1 year ago
That engine has a very unique sound.
HB3ZZY 1 year ago
stinks nasty death pollute storm force wind rain more death fuck the oil companies surely they can invent something other than kerosene?
bobodd5 1 year ago
Is it only the automotive Rolls Royce parts that belong to BMW? Cause if aeronautic also belong to BMW, then I want this turbo in my M3 :P
JeyOmatix 1 year ago
@JeyOmatix Yes, Rolls Royce motor cars was split from Rolls Royce Ltd decades ago.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
@AgentJayZ Ok thanks ;)
JeyOmatix 1 year ago
@JeyOmatix I'm sure they could find a way to fit your M3 to one of these engines. You would have to pay cash up front of course & the funeral plan or an ejector seat would be optional. Fuel consumtion could be a slightly limiting factor to be considered on long trips as well. Will give new meaning to "Roast the opposition" though.(Wouldn't want to be behind you at the traffic lights!)
Biggerbadwolf 1 year ago
@Biggerbadwolf
Hahaha!!! Well, long trips wouldn't be long anymore so even if the fuel consumption is as high as a Boeing, the time I'll take to get from A to B will so short that I'd probably be considered as "eco-friendly"
...Already chose my tombstone design! :D "RIP, roast in peace"
JeyOmatix 1 year ago
I know we have the 50.000 hp one at work overseas Rolls Royce and it is a nice one to run to
royduck2 1 year ago
testing is a part of manufacturing,the end process and to the customer.proof that the engine works.
toxicguy101 1 year ago
Oly TM3Bs were used on Type 42 Destroyers,,,,,,awsum.....bit thirsty tho!!
billart100 1 year ago
The later series Olympus engines use an extra low pressure stage to increase overall thrust performance. The 593 was actually a whole new overhaul of the 320.
barthoedemaker 1 year ago
very good...very good.
lafaietesoares 1 year ago
are these surplus engines? i can't see a customer being happy about having an engine run up on youtube,
otherwise very cool stuff. i'm amazed how close your control room is to the engine, i hope the glass is thick!
chrismkay3 1 year ago
@chrismkay3 Part of the reason we show the test runs on Youtube is so the customer representatives who are not able to attend the actual test can see it.
...and really, what does surplus mean? Extra, not needed or wanted, of no use and so for sale at scrap prices...?
No, none of the engines in my videos fit that description.
They all have a job to do, and that's why money is being spent on keeping them running.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago 5
@AgentJayZ it's also pretty darn cool, though. I love the sound of an Olympus spooling up.
duskglow 1 year ago
@AgentJayZ If you do have any vids of a Pratt & Whitney j-58 startup, could you please post it? I believe it requires a single 450 cubic metre chevy engine as a starter motor... You'll be knowing this but i'll just say it. Two of these lovely ladies were used on the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird...
gfruy 1 year ago
There's a 320 going for £2,000,000 on Ebay.
mrrmancunian 1 year ago
Were these used on the Concord as well as the Avro Vulcan? If so, impressive engine.
pelagic6 1 year ago
@pelagic6 The engines in the Vulcan are closely related to this industrial version. The Concorde used Olympus 593's, which were updated and uprated... heavily hot-rodded versions of the Olympus which have quite a different appearance.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
that starter motor sounds awesome...
I WANT ONE LIKE NOW
cheetawolf 1 year ago 18
@cheetawolf It's a Parker fixed ratio axial piston hydraulic motor, producing about 90 Hp.
I think it's an F-11-10. They are a few grand.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
Same turbine in gas plant process maracaibo lake venezuela...
EDUARDOERD 1 year ago
man that hurts my ears
mechasaultfreak2 1 year ago
sounds orgasmic, which planes use this engine or will use
dreamexecution 1 year ago
@dreamexecution Dont think they still use them now. But concorde used 4 of them :D
liamdunfey 1 year ago
@dreamexecution The concord used to use 4 of these
kurtnelle 1 year ago
this engine used to power concorde concorde was powered by 4 RR afterburning olympus engines to push her up to mach 2
teletubbykiller23 1 year ago
That's cool, I didn't know they could be switched like that.
KI11YOU 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be more efficient to use a marine turbine to get that 40,000 horsepower instead of an engine originally designed for thrust? Because those are designed for SHP not thrust. Or do the marine engines just cost that much more where it's not worth it?
KI11YOU 1 year ago
@KI11YOU Dude... this is a marine/industrial Olympus.
Both the industrial and the aero versions share the exact same gas generator section.
Put a nozzle behind a gas generator, and you have a thrust engine.
Put a power turbine behind a gas generator, and you have a turning output shaft.
The gg, or "core", is the same for both.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
Rolls Royce does live up to its name. FANTASTIC
taffydavenport1965 1 year ago
God that's a beautiful sound (start up)
mobius1aic 1 year ago
the starter sounds like a tornado siren LOL
cheetawolf 1 year ago
the price price goes from 60,000 to over 700,000
cladiax1 1 year ago
if my car had one of those(if it was legal), i would never be late for work again!
penguinmaster7 1 year ago
@penguinmaster7 you might want to pop on a couple of wings too
Kentuckyhorse1 1 year ago
Anywhere from the price of a car to a house, depending on engine configuration and modifications ordered.
Call Brian at Maddex Turbine services Ltd.
or
Robin at S&S Turbine services Ltd.
Both companies have websites.
Each has a wide variety of engines at very reasonable prices.
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
Very hard to test one of this engines, you will probably need 15 to 20 yeas of xp to get there. I'm going to be an A&P tech in about 1 year and this is my life.
pred1990 1 year ago
Its always fun to see these engines bench tested. Several times been inside siemens formely alstoms of lincoln, who build and service gas turbines and test them in large armored rooms to destruction sometimes. their reliability is absolutely astounding, they are unbelievably good! but rarely they have had some eventually explode you could see the marks inside the room on the walls still lol
projectraven1 1 year ago
Nice video! I wanna ask you: this kind of engines are used in Boeing 737-200 comercial jets? I guess so cause it sounds alike.. sorry if what I´m asking you is kind of obvious, and my English is not good either.. but I enjoyed a lot this video so I wanted to comment on it
Best regards
Iván
Ivanvideoscaseros5 1 year ago
The 737-200 used the Pratt & Whitney JT8D
AgentJayZ 1 year ago
Thanks!
I love aircraft and trains. And I like very much to hear the startup sounds of the jet aircraft engines.. Keep posting this videos
Ivanvideoscaseros5 1 year ago
@AgentJayZ i LOVE pratt&whitney! especally thier JT9D turbofans those are BEASTS of engines to bad most of the aircraft using the JT9D are retired due to age and the fuel consumption of the JT9D
teletubbykiller23 1 year ago
@AgentJayZ yessir
RANDALL561 1 year ago
@Ivanvideoscaseros5 The Boeing 737-200 used the Pratt & Whitney JT8D, a low bypass turbofan.
bamaslamma1003 1 year ago
i used to work for preci spark they make inserts for the static compressor blade and combustion chambers for the new trent series engines
GREEVES246 2 years ago
What was the maximum thrust rating?
Skippy585 2 years ago
This engine does not produce thrust, but is an industrial powerplant rated at 25MW.
I have seen some non-afterburning Olympus flight engines rated at 35,000 lbs thrust.
The Concorde used a much-upgraded version of the Olympus, called the 593.
An industrial version of that engine was designed, but never produced, and it was rated at 50MW.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
well than wut is it used for??????????
Boeing757luvr 2 years ago
All of the Olympus engines we have rebuilt so far have been from electrical generating applications.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
so this isnt from a plane
Boeing757luvr 2 years ago
I figured the Concorde used a Turbo Fan engine instid of a Turbo Jet. Just like that of the B-1 Lancer. Of course the 1st Lancer had engines that produced up to 37,000 pounds of thurst, but they were derated for the B1B.
Skippy585 2 years ago
All modern fighters use a low bypass turbofan, because it is more efficient, and the afterburner works even better because the combined exhaust flow from the core and the bypass has more available oxygen than the exhaust from a turbojet.
The Olympus is one of the few dual spool turbojets out there.
The P&W J57 is another.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
The F/A 18 Hornet (A-D) was the only modern figher to use a Low by pass turbo jet engine (GE: F-404) each capabable of over 18,000 lbs thurst each. Of course with the Super Hornet; bought the use of a more, modern Turbo Fan (GE:F-414) So, therefore the legacy hornet is the only fighter used in the U.S Navy that uses engines simular to the older A-4 and F-4 Phantom jets.
Cheers
Skippy585 2 years ago
The F-4 used two J79s, and the A-4 (most of them) used the J52.
These are both single-shaft turbojet engines.
The F-404 is a two shaft low bypass turbofan engine.
The more powerful F-414 is a two shaft low bypass turbofan.
I've always thought of the F-404 as a "modern" engine.
I call the other fighter engines low bypass in comparison to the high bypass airliner engines.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
actualy many fighters use turbofans. they make much more power and are much more efficent. because not all of the thrusting air and gas has to go through the compressor power and turbine sections of the engines it can come straight from the fan where it is still cold from altitude and doesent need to bend around inside the engine. all you need to do is slow the incoming air to below mach and let the engine gulp it up check out movalble ducts like whats on the f-15 its neat
DARKSCOPE001 2 years ago
I actually seen an F15C demo at an airshow years ago. Wasn't as loud as I thought it would be. Not like the thunderous F/A 18 hornet.
Skippy585 2 years ago
no the concorde is a turbo jet because in order to get a turbo fan to operate at altitude you have to slow the incoming airstream to a certian velocity before the engine can make any trust. a turbo fan can operate at a higher inlet velocity (still below sonic) but higher
DARKSCOPE001 2 years ago
I bet a Ram Jet could fix that problem. That was part of the technology used on the SR-71 Black Bird. As a matter of fact is was simular to a Turbo fan in which the motor had a fan-assisted ramjet.
Skippy585 2 years ago
@Skippy585 sort of. the engines used in the black bird were actualy a turbo jet untill about mach 3 then there were bypass tubes that fed ram pressure air from the pre compressor stage directly into the power section of the engine because the aircraft was moving so fast this gave the proper pressure wall for the burning fuel to push against (how jet engine basicly works is expanding fuel pushes against the pressure wall behind it expanding into the turbine section) thus becoming more efficent
DARKSCOPE001 2 years ago
Ok, so there in comming air was moved directly into the combustion stage of the engine. Yes it was acting more like a high by pass engine above mach 2.
Skippy585 2 years ago
The J58 in the SR71 did act as a ramjet above a certain speed. ( not sure of the transition point).
Bypass is a term describing that portion of the airflow that is diverted around the combustors and turbines of the engine, also some of the compressor stages.
The term does not apply to the J58, because when acting as a ramjet, all of the intake air is being mixed with fuel and burned in the combustion section.
It is a very interesting design of engine. I'm not aware of any other like it.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
my car need a upgrade!
StreetFighterJoe 2 years ago 12
So?
roerbakei1 2 years ago
so what?
StreetFighterJoe 2 years ago
@StreetFighterJoe lok
Leyu3 1 year ago
woooooooooooow I even had to lower the speaker volume right after ignition.
ichbintharaka 2 years ago
Saw a Vulcan at an airshow in Auburn, Maine. It was 1981. I believe the Vulcan was out of Waddington AFB in England. It was by far the LOUDEST aircraft I've ever heard. Gave me chills. Too bad the mighty Vulcan and also the Concorde are out of service. Shame. Any other planes use Rolls Royce Olympus engines? Didn't the Lockheed L-10111 use them? Is that airliner still in service.
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 2 years ago 2
The L1011 airliner used the Rolls Royce RB-211 hi- bypass turbofan.
It was a new airliner that was the first to use a new engine, and the whole story is quite a tale.
There's a good bit of it in the article on the L-1011 at Wiki...
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
I've seen the Vulcan fly up close and personal, she's a magnificent aircraft. And the howling sound of those Olympus engines really made my day when she came in for short final!
Stoney3K 2 years ago
I was also lucky enough to see a Vulcan fly, at an airshow in Bellingham, Washington way back when.
It was incredible at full power, but when it approached the field in what was called a stealth approach - engines at min power, it was silent until right on top of us.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
also powered the TSR.2 back in 1964, the predesesor of Concorde´s Olympus
pixelsilva 2 years ago
The TSR-2 Olympus' were quite different to the Vulcans, and Concorde's were a variant based on the TSR-2's.
qwertdr 2 years ago
at 0:17 it sounds like 'don't mess with me'
hootergirlsrhot 2 years ago 3
the olympus is wat powered concord
kratos32godofwar 2 years ago
i love how its just a really expensive way of moving air
sti1tz 2 years ago 7
so concorde had around 160,000Hp dry? plus more with the reheat?
ravemonk 2 years ago
Sounds about right.
There are a few different ways to look at how thrust translates to power.
Mathematically, thrust is force, and force times distance over time equals power.
Distance over time is speed.
But thrust changes as the plane increases in speed.
This engine, when used to generate electrical power, is capable of producing over 30 Megawatts of real, measurable power.
746 watts per horsepower
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
There was one of these (well, the marine version, but not that far from this) in the Turunmaa class gunboats (corvettes) of the Finnish Navy. The propulsion system was state-of-the-art in the 60s.
tupsumato 2 years ago
I don't think I quite respected the size of the Olympus enough until now...
robf93 2 years ago
slap a seat on that shit and ride it around like a fuckin broomstick outa hell lol
ultra4delux 2 years ago 12
Kick Ass
Redefine01 2 years ago
rpm reached?
QuanticMechanics 2 years ago
Not as much as you might think.
The Low pressure shaft gets to about 4,000 rpm, and the Hp gets to about 8,000 max.
But it's big and heavy.
The LP rotor is about 36 inches in diameter, and weighs close to a ton.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
NO way only 4,000 to 8,000 RPMS, wow i always thought i would be like red line rpms more than 10,000 so i can rev up rpms in my car i beat a jet engine LOL
fuji2failo 2 years ago
are these the rr bristol olympus engines as seen in the avro vulcan bomber?
iCaRRBiiNe 2 years ago
The short answer is... YES.
Rolls Royce purchased Bristol idontknowhowmany years ago, and the continued the development of the Olympus.
Later they created the slightly modified industrial powerplant you see here.
Very closely related.
In fact, they dream of flying.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
the olmypus engines were also on the concorde
BIMMERKID2 2 years ago
Different model of Olympus, quite different.
qwertdr 2 years ago
why do you have it?
ddevlin721721 2 years ago
no i mean i wonder if your whole body would stick to it
PsuPepperoni 2 years ago
With this engine, and our aluminum screen, you would stick to it for a fraction of a second, and then you would be taken, along with the screen, into the engine.
We want to avoid that.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
I love your videos dude!
jackmonkey26 2 years ago
can you jump onto the screen over the intake and stick to it?
PsuPepperoni 2 years ago
Yes sure
GGGunitNextLevel 2 years ago
Massive!!!
kezman63 2 years ago
How does that not blow out your eardrums??
TimpBizkit 2 years ago
Earplugs are great, and some of us wear them inside our earcup-type hearing protection.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
0:09 = That 'wooo' sound lets you know this thing means business.
akabane1984 2 years ago 2
... That would be the operator in the CAT skid-steer loader activating the high-flow hydraulic pump to drive the hydraulic starter motor to get the HP system spinning up.
It's a tiny thumbwheel on the right-hand controller.
Strange - to start a 40,000 Hp engine with a tiny movement of your thumb.
Yes, we are unconventional, and we get things done in Jet City.
AgentJayZ 2 years ago
So how long does it take for this engine to spin up to full power?
akab