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...Gyron is an axial-flow engine, intended for use in supersonic aircraft, while all De Havilland's previous jets (e.g., the Goblin, which powers the Vampire fighter, and the Ghost, which powers the Comet and the Venom fighter), have been centrifugal types.* De Havilland said that the engine, which has low gas consumption and a low ratio of weight to thrust, is being developed first for supersonic fighter planes, later could be built for transports. Said De Havilland: the Gyron is the first of "a new generation of really large turbine-jet power units. The company is confident that...
...another Bell plane, powered with a single, axial-flow turbojet putting out only 4,900 lbs. of thrust. This 32 ft. 4 in. ship weighs less than 10,000 lbs., is the first to have variable-sweep wings (TIME, June 25, 1951). It was built to investigate the aerodynamic effects of different wing angles...
Pratt and Whitney provided three pieces of equipment, the tunnel, an axial flow compressor rig, and a centrifugal compressor rig. The tunnel is divided into three parts. The first, or front, is for subsonic speeds and is used to calibrate the instruments used in the testing program. This subsonic section, with a diameter of six inches, narrows down to a throat--shaped section where supersonic speeds are produced. Behind this is a subsonic cascade tunnel, used in the rotor tests...
...apparatus used in the project, though originally provided by Pratt and Whitney, is now the property of the University. The supersonic tunnel has been used in a variety of different ways, such as the study of super-sonic shock waves.The axial flow compressor shown here supplies volumes of air up to 30,000 cubic feet per minute to the wind tunneis. Besides the axial flow compressor, there is a centrifugal compressor. Axial flow has largely taken the place of centrifugal flow on the power plants that drive modern jet aircraft. The large size of the above compressor can be observed...
Before developing the Sapphire and the Javelin, Sopwith faced two major decisions: 1) should the engine's compressor be axial flow or centrifugal?; 2) should the plane be delta-winged or twin-boomed (like the U.S.'s old P-38)? He chose axial flow, even though Sir Frank Whittle, who pioneered jets, advised the other; Sopwith thinks the Sapphire proved his own judgment right. His choice of delta-wing at first shocked Sopwith's crack designer, Sydney Camm, who dashed off to Yorkshire to seek "The Skipper," crying: "I won't have...