Turbo Fan RC

This is my latest engine design, a 52 pound thrust true turbo fan. I needed a test bed to test out my new engine so myself and a hand full of merit research student's scratch built this aircraft. Although the turbofan is too big for this airframe it got the engine in the air. The engine has been de tuned to 30 pounds of thrust to stop the aircraft from ground looping, due to the engine being mounted so high up on the airframe this makes the tail of the aircraft want to raise up before the nose comes up. The engine is 4:1 bypass ratio, giving an additional 40% thrust over a conventional turbo jet. This may have some application for UAV's( Unmanned aircraft), or full sized gliders. I am thinking of a small one man aircraft with two of these engines on it, we'll see.
For more info you can email me at DualspoolTF@gmail.com I hope you enjoy the video.


Special thanks to Arshie, Morgan, Claire, Julia, Mitchell, Geoff, Greg and Miriam for helping to build the aircraft, and Tanner for the great job on the video

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• ewald schuster
• turbo
• fan
• dual
• spool
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[AllenRockwell]

Very cool. Did you guys shoot that video out in Apple Valley? I think I recognize that area.

[killerbee2T]

@AllenRockwell

It was out at Rabbit dry lake bed

[Pahrnia1]

why don't you try to sell it to Yves Rossy because he's using 4 jet cat turbines at the moment, maybe you could save him some weight and give him a lot of additional thrust.

[killerbee2T]

@Pahrnia1 These would double his flight time, the liability to sell this for maned aircraft is a little scary, although I have been considering an ultralight with two of these.

[highvoltagefeathers]

Thats amazing. I hope you get some funding, there ought to be some kindof market for an engine like that.

[killerbee2T]

@highvoltagefeathers Thank you, you would thick there would be a market for it, trying to make it inexpensive is the problem.

[killerbee2T]

@Chooie1337 Yeah, and the A-10 is more forgiving with that big wing

[Chooie1337]

@killerbee2T thats very true on showing them off more i do like the way a-10 handles as well ive also thought it would be interesting to may toy weapons to put on an rc a-10 like some kinda dumbfire rocket with a small black powder charge for example to resemble hydra rockets

[killerbee2T]

@Chooie1337 F-16's use turbo fans also, there just low bypass, but the A-10 would show the engines off better.

[Chooie1337]

@killerbee2T well f-16 would sound strange with a turbofan on an a-10 it would be quite fitting i personally would find a certain style of plane i wish to fly and either build or find something that would fit my desired flight characteristics