Home made turbine

This is a full scale home made copy of a starter turbine for a Harrier Jet.
Recorded at the 2005 Air-show from LVC Sittard.
Sorry but can not answer any questions about the turbine; I was only the cameraman.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• LVC
• Sittard

[Accumulator1]

If it had any thrust it would blow that cabinent over. It makes alot of noise. Probably be a good leaf blower.

[joebananatube]

So, how come the table don't take off?

[gus23a]

@Accumulator1

it wasn´t designed to have thrust, it was designed to turn up the main turbine to firingspeed.

[freshkryp69]

That fucker drinks the fuel!

A r/c heli would be cool in 1/4 scale!

[Justwantahover]

@Accumulator1 Its a gas turbine engine for shaft hp, not thrust like a jet engine. The shaft power the original was to turn a Harrier engine to start it (see description of video.

[megalizardfreak]

theres rocks under the wheels 

[NWTorpedoes23]

@rntxyusn Nahh, hes living on the edge!

[rntxyusn]

The fuel tank needs to be shielded.

[masteryoyo1978]

skip to 1:28 for the starting of it



[silver760]

I think you will find this is not a home made copy of a Harrier APU,but the actual item itself.APU's for large passenger jets are not much bigger than this.Why would he go to the trouble of making such a complex unit with many specialist metal parts,like the turbine vanes when he could just pick up a complete APU off the shelf? A life expired unit,which could never be fitted to a aircraft again but would have hundreds of hours or more of life in it before failure can be bought for little money

[valttu94]

@MyLIfeStudios Its already in cabinet. Jet engine in a cabinet= EPIC!

[DastreagusLetobeiter]

i guess they make heavy tables too over there.