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Pulsar with a turbine?
Anybody ever think about putting a SOLAR turbine on the front of a Pulsar? Ric Stitt tells me his planetary transmission will drive a prop at 3000 rpm as a constant rpm output from the SOLAR. At about 150 hp and using the prop at constant rpm with varying pitch, that baby ought to go Vne in level flight. Anyone out there ever think about this? Badwater Bill |
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How many GPH for fuel flow at 150 hp? The Helicycle I saw last weekend burned 10 GPH, and the engine is derated to 105
hp... -- Dan D. .. "Badwater Bill" wrote in message ... Anybody ever think about putting a SOLAR turbine on the front of a Pulsar? Ric Stitt tells me his planetary transmission will drive a prop at 3000 rpm as a constant rpm output from the SOLAR. At about 150 hp and using the prop at constant rpm with varying pitch, that baby ought to go Vne in level flight. Anyone out there ever think about this? Badwater Bill |
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:04:00 GMT, "Blueskies" wrote:
How many GPH for fuel flow at 150 hp? The Helicycle I saw last weekend burned 10 GPH, and the engine is derated to 105 hp... Dan: What do you mean? Does someone have a gas turbine on a helicycle? To answer your question, I think that Solar turbine burns about 15 gal/hr. I'm not sure. The BSFC (pounds of fuel burned per hour per horsepower) Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the turbine is much higher than for the internal combustion engine. Hell, the Jet Ranger I fly burns 20 gal/hr at idle on the ramp and 30 gal/hr at full power. It's because you have to run that damn compressor at idle just to get the engine to run. Kind of a funny engine in a way. Burns 2/3 the fuel it uses at full power just to idle. BWB |
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BWB,
Yep the helicycle is now turbine powered comes standard. all the best. Sean Trost |
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"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
... Anybody ever think about putting a SOLAR turbine on the front of a Pulsar? Ric Stitt tells me his planetary transmission will drive a prop at 3000 rpm as a constant rpm output from the SOLAR. At about 150 hp and using the prop at constant rpm with varying pitch, that baby ought to go Vne in level flight. Anyone out there ever think about this? Badwater Bill I realize this is a troll but here I go anyway: The Pulsar I had would hit Vne at WOT on a 65hp, Rotax 582. Why would I want a turbine? Rick Pellicciotti |
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Talk to Doug Swocherth(spelling?), heck of a nice guy, just very busy.
He built his homebuilt design helicopter with Rotax power, then adapted Solar, then went to helicycle airframe. |
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Bill, seventy turbines have been shipped to the customers of Helicycle just
last week. They are modified by BJ just for the Helicycle. It is the standard engine now. Jim "Badwater Bill" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:04:00 GMT, "Blueskies" wrote: How many GPH for fuel flow at 150 hp? The Helicycle I saw last weekend burned 10 GPH, and the engine is derated to 105 hp... Dan: What do you mean? Does someone have a gas turbine on a helicycle? To answer your question, I think that Solar turbine burns about 15 gal/hr. I'm not sure. The BSFC (pounds of fuel burned per hour per horsepower) Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the turbine is much higher than for the internal combustion engine. Hell, the Jet Ranger I fly burns 20 gal/hr at idle on the ramp and 30 gal/hr at full power. It's because you have to run that damn compressor at idle just to get the engine to run. Kind of a funny engine in a way. Burns 2/3 the fuel it uses at full power just to idle. BWB |
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Is the Helicycle legit or is it another Mini-500. I was looking at the web
site and can't find a think about building methods or cost. At list DF said how much the Mini cost. "Jim" wrote in message ... Bill, seventy turbines have been shipped to the customers of Helicycle just last week. They are modified by BJ just for the Helicycle. It is the standard engine now. Jim "Badwater Bill" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:04:00 GMT, "Blueskies" wrote: How many GPH for fuel flow at 150 hp? The Helicycle I saw last weekend burned 10 GPH, and the engine is derated to 105 hp... Dan: What do you mean? Does someone have a gas turbine on a helicycle? To answer your question, I think that Solar turbine burns about 15 gal/hr. I'm not sure. The BSFC (pounds of fuel burned per hour per horsepower) Brake Specific Fuel Consumption for the turbine is much higher than for the internal combustion engine. Hell, the Jet Ranger I fly burns 20 gal/hr at idle on the ramp and 30 gal/hr at full power. It's because you have to run that damn compressor at idle just to get the engine to run. Kind of a funny engine in a way. Burns 2/3 the fuel it uses at full power just to idle. BWB |
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God Damn. A real experimenter. You remind me of Craig Wall. Hang in
there buddy and thanks for the pic. Looks neat! I'd love to be working on that thingy with you. What state are you in? Bill |
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:03:59 -0700, "Jim" wrote:
Bill, seventy turbines have been shipped to the customers of Helicycle just last week. They are modified by BJ just for the Helicycle. It is the standard engine now. Jim Damn. I didn't know that. The guy above gave me the link to see it. Great! I love it. I'll tell you what happened to me here. I sort of knew that BJ Schram was working with the Solar turbine from talking with Ric Stitt. In fact maybe Ric even told me that BJ was doing what you said above. I got confused because TEAM (Tennessee Engineering and Manufacturing) who built the MINIMAX had an airplane that rang a bell in my head like that helicycle that BJ is screwing with. I thought someone had put a turbine on one of those ultralight airplanes of TEAM's. They had something they called the Aerial cycle or something like that about 10 years ago, but I can't remember what the exact name was. So, I was corn-fused a bit about it, thinking it was on an airplane. Let me ask you guys who know about this a question. What if the Solar detonates or starts coming apart. Is there appropriate shielding around the turbine to protect the pilot? BWB |
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