"The Making of a Jet Engine" - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 03:11:13 am
content: 200 million pounds worth of stock on the shelves!

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 05:20:17 am
content: "The Running of a Jet Engine"

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 05:56:05 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on July 08, 2015, 03:11:13 amThat's a heck of a soup kitchen.

author: B.B.Bubby
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 09:01:01 am
content: Wow, thanks for the Video.Does engineering get sexier than that ? You've got the space stuff for sure but that doesn't count as there's no real commercial aspect to it, and even then its probably not as challenging.Why the hell aren't we doing stuff like this in Australia ??

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 09:18:44 am
content: Quote from: B.B.Bubby on July 08, 2015, 09:01:01 amCertainly not from a production point of view.As someone who came from a big-ish engineering sort of production environment, that stuff is very interesting.

author: B.B.Bubby
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 09:42:45 am
content: Really good to see such a big, high tech company still employing and training apprentices.Father and son welding teams -hand TIG welding titanium to mil spec tolerancesits like the 1800's but now.

author: abebarker
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 03:07:41 pm
content: Here is a channel on jet engines that I really like. AgentJayZ from Canada works at a jet engine repair shop. He does a good job of explaining how thinks work.https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 05:04:12 pm
content: Just remember that the parts of those RR engines are made by companies world wide, including the auxiliary gearbox being made by Denel Aviation in South Africa. They also do some service on engines for the Southern hemisphere, as they do have the facilities and staff. When they were Atlas they could manufacture engines completely from the base metals.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 06:10:23 pm
content: My passion is and always will be with Piston engines, I especially love the RR merlin and Griffon engines

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 06:20:34 pm
content: Quote from: Deathwish on July 08, 2015, 06:10:23 pmThe only reason I like piston engines is because they are all I can afford. Jets and turbo-props are easily my favorite. Hold the brakes, spool up, release brakes, hold on.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 06:52:22 pm
content: My father and step father were both RAF and LAC's and mainly served with each other, we lived at a number of places but my love for the old piston engine came from Tangmere and a couple of other places, my step father went on to the EE lighting at Leconfield, and on to Akrotiri.Both of my fathers ended up on the V bombers, my natural father then left the RAF, went to Aden and Saudi to work on aircraft privately ( he got kicked out for breaking the strict moral codes! ). Step father then went down to the south of England at Odiham on Puma helicopters. I recall there being a Gloster Meteor at the main gate at Odiham, if it is still there I have no idea, but I did toy with the daft idea as a kid of pinching it and going for a ride, such childhood silliness. My grandfather was ex Signals from the Grenadier Guards and then had his own Garage around Guildford, so mechanics is much a case of family tradition.

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2015, 07:34:28 pm
content: "We grind to within 7 microns....."Crap! Why don't they just use the DIY 5 axis KickStarter machine?