Rolls Royce Olympus lll

An Olympus from an electrical generating facility had a blade fail in its HP turbine. It was sent to Maddex Turbines for repair. We've replaced the blade, fixed any damage, and here is the test run showing that it's ready for return to service.
Sorry for the distorted sound on startup; the bass is so loud it just tortures the camera's mic, and does a number on the people as well!

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Olympus
• industrial
• gas
• turbine
• jet
• engine
• generator
• propane
• RR
• power
• Maddex
• fsj
• heatilon

[sharrynuk]

So when you test an industrial turbine, what happens to the shaft power? Do you have 40,000 hp working against a brake, or do you remove the power turbine and just let the jet exhaust take the energy away?

[AgentJayZ]

@sharrynuk The power turbine is not part of the engine. We use a calibrated restricted outlet on the jetpipe to provide a load to the engine.

[djdood]

LOVE the pure sound of the engine itself on this one (without the start-cart stealing the audio "spotlight"). Hydraulic start is pretty cool!

Someday I hope to get some recording equipment out to a turbine facility and capture startups/shutdowns in 24bit with mics that can handle the insane decibel levels turbines make.

[AgentJayZ]

@djdood You're not that far away... and the S&S test cell is one of the few places on the planet that you could be granted access to make those recordings...

If you have the mics, we have the noise.

[102trafalgar]

I remember the first Olympus test flying about 59 years ago. It them gave 10,000 lbs of thrust which to us schoolboys was awesome! Went on to power The vulcan, Concord, and the sadly forgotten TSR2. As always loved this video. Does the low ambient air temperature help reduce fuel consumption? Hope so. Thanks anyway really enjoy these.

[AgentJayZ]

@102trafalgar

Aah, the TSR-2... a beautiful bird so far ahead of its time it was misunderstood by the politicians and killed for meaningless reasons. The politicians are embarassed at their idiocy, so they don't really want to "revisit that issue"...

In Canada the exact same story happened with an aircraft of similarly outstanding capabilities. Ours was called the Avro CF-105 Arrow.

...I wonder what or who could have influenced our governments to kill such great aircraft ?

[AgentJayZ]

@FrontSideBus ...All of them... but no worries: you can't hear them!

[AgentJayZ]

@1metiz ... sounds good to me! I'm going to adopt your explanation as the official response.

[Ilicium]

Never seen a hydraulic starter. before. Thank you.

[M3G4G0TH]

WOW THAT FUCKING BASS OMG LOL hahahaha

[cheetawolf]

the Rolls Royce Olympus... THE ULTIMATE SUBWOOFER... and also the worlds most expensive one. XD

[102trafalgar]

@AgentJayZ Thanks for your replies. Always intersting from one who knows! I also remember the sadly cancelled CF 105 Arrow. Powered I think by an Avro Orenda Iroquois? A truly beautiful engine! Keep the videos coming. In this sad world these a least put a smile on my aging face!

[AgentJayZ]

@102trafalgar We don't measure fuel consumption, but the engine requires less rpm to make the same power at very cold air temp. I think it uses the same amount of fuel regardless of temp, though.

The colder denser air is easier for the compressor to work on.