>
>> The worst jet engine I ever experienced was the Continental on the T-37
>> trainer. You moved the
>>throttle and waited. Far worse than any recip I've ever encountered, even
>>with metal props. The
>>basic problen was that it had a single-stage compressor that was a casting.
>>
>Yes, the Jet Provost Mk 3 had a similar problem. The idle-to-full power
>acceleration could take 16
>seconds. That’s a good while if you’ve made a mess of an approach.
>
Those engines should have been limited to constant-speed applications,
like gas turbine compressors for ground equipment. The ones in the T-37 were
made in the US by Continental, and they're known in the industry as
"centrifugal flow compressors".
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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