30,000 Hp GE Turbine engine

GE LM2500 turbine engine at the S&S Turbines test cell in Fort St John, BC.

This is an industrial version of the CF-6, which powered the DC-10 and some 747 aircraft.

Various marques of this engine produce between 25 and 35 thousand horsepower.

In the first shot, we are purging liquid propane from the fuel line. This fuel must be in a gas state for our controls to work properly.

The shot at the end is included just because I walk right through the flow of hot air still blowing out the exhaust as the engine winds down.

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Science & Technology

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• Turbine
• jet
• engine
• LM2500
• power
• GE
• S&S
• test
• CF6
• marine
• propulsion
• LM-2500

[snorbinmop7]

GE...We bring good things to life!

[AgentJayZ]

@snorbinmop7 ...Actually, this time it was S&S Turbines who brought this thing to life.

[shawnster44]

1 million of these lined up together might speed up/slow down Earth's rotation.

[AgentJayZ]

@M1CH0 Yes; out of view is a 2,000 gallon tank of liquid propane. Good for about 15 minutes at full power...

[mobius1aic]

Who's here because of the Air Cooled Blades vid? :D

[LarryCanFly]

@AgentJayZ You mean "back to life".

[shawnster44]

@bigbobgotu fan + sailboat experiment youtube.com/watch?v=0CrXvOKPym­k

[AgentJayZ]

@rlee0001

1) No

2) The worst that could happen is a turbine disk failure. Extremely rare but there are documented cases.

3) No

[rlee0001]

@AgentJayZ Have you ever seen an engine catastrophically fail during a test? How violent would a failure be? Are these tests considered dangerous?

[bigepi]

@bigepi the saidboat affect that is.

[bigepi]

@bigbobgotu at first yes then no and still now i'm not sure. I thought of it 2D like.. earth as a solid disk floating in a bed of water(air)< all of that floating in another giant plate(earth and air) and that floating in a frictionless pool of water(space) if the center disk starting spinning up it would eventually carry it over to the outer plate. <But that's not a true example of the forces hehe

[AgentJayZ]

@bigbobgotu He knows that. He was joking. Or having some fun. It's good to have fun. OK?