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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! as you can see the kart is powered by two IDENTICAL lockwoods. The first one worked perfectly when I tested it so I decided to make another one for additional power on the kart. Unfortunately my seccond engine WILL. NOT. SUSTAIN. It pulsates (barely) when startin...

I don't see how they avoid massive polution of the incoming air charge (especially at low speeds) with this set-up.

I'm sure it will have worked, but whether it offered any real benefit over a single engine is something I wouldn't bet on.

Here's an interesting mental exercise for those reading. In the setup described -- using the heat of the flame to vaporize the propane, will the pressure of the gas exiting the copper tube exceed the pressure inside the tank and, if so, will that pressure be appreciably higher, and if so, will it be...

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Firstly you say: >As for using a Pulse jet, I would > say on that, that our first > engine was a pulsejet. The > problem is that our machine is > design to word under very cold > temperature. And what happen to > gas propane in at very cold > temperature? That it, no more > evaporation and pressure....

For those who have trouble seeing how an apparently non-sinsoidal waveform can indeed contain a sinsodial component, this page is excellent: http://www.clubi.ie/amhiggins/fourier1.html Note how a sawtooth waveform is built from a fundemental (sine wave) plus harmonics. What an FFT does is calculate ...

Yes, but the O-Rays are useless on their own as they tend to cancel each other out. It was for this reason that the Germans also came up with the highly impenitrable partition (HIP for short. However, a single HIP was insufficnet and would soon be broken down by the O-Rays. Eventually they found tha...

Mike said: > I was excited there for a minute, > Bill. I'm not sure a straight > pipe will get you a sine output. > I'm looking at the Schmidt > paper's pressure trace and it's > ugly, and I believe it was a > straight pipe. However, it is a > valve type Someone who's got more time than me could alw...

> People somehow imagine that
> increased frequency will increase
> power. THIS IS NOT TRUE

Correct -- I believe that one of Tharrat's papers explains this also.

I seem to recall that Lockwood himself used linked combustors to secure a phase relationship between the multiple engines he used in his "lift packs" that consisted of multiple engines with augmentors.

Don't forget that if the airframe is vibrating, those vibrations will create their own pressure waves inside the structure and cockpit. Pressure-waves create vibration, vibraiton creates pressure waves. The difference between a vibration and a pressure wave could (loosely) be simply a matter of whet...

Hey, anyone who knows what a fourier transformation is will understand what you're saying and agree with it.

Those that don't ought to go do some reading -- in theory it's pretty simple, although the math can be challenging if you're a bit rusty.

They may not vibrate sinsoudally, but they do vibrate. just do the math: Take an engine like the V1 with a 20-inch tailpipe. That's a cross-sectional area of 314 square inches. Now assume that we have peak combustion pressures (as you quote) of 23psi and minimum pressures (as you quote) of 9psi. Let...

The noise issue is a vexing one, and one which I'm presently looking very closely at. However, what most people forget is that aircraft, no matter what form of propulsion they use, are very noisy devices. You can hear a Huey coming from miles away because of the slap of its rotors. Something as anci...

Mike said: > You guys are arguing semantics in > my opinion, there is no acoustics > without vibrations and > vice-versa! The poor empenage on > this plane must have shaken right > off from the vibration excited by > the pressure waves. It does not > matter how well you shock mount > the engine to t...