Jon Ellison
Recruit
- 5
- Aug 15, 2017
Could an ultimate propeller powered single engined plane be built around an engine such as the Europrop T400?
General characteristics
General characteristics
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe.../600px-Paris_Air_Show_2017_Europrop_TP400.jpg
Was reading this on an A400M vs a C130J. https://www.militaryfactory.com/air...aft1=820&aircraft2=28&Submit=Compare+Aircraft
Got me thinking once googled the engine spec for the T400-D6 (11,000 hp (8,200 kW) ), could you build the ultimate single engined propeller power plane around such an engine?
Like a really upsized "Turbulence"
this has around 850hp.
If you built something 2x the size in terms of frontal area but along the general look of that but with the pilot / passenger sitting above the lump. Where the prop sits vs the main body of the engine looks like it would work well (i.e. main part of engine lower than the prop allowing more of a conventional cockpit position ala P51 (with all the depth of that planes body directly below the pilot).
Like a bit bigger P51, a plane looking somewhere between a P51 and Turbulence would not be massive - obviously bigger than a P51, but would it really be any bigger than say a P47, but with a tad more power!!
The K12 probably too big.
If and Aibus A400M can do 489mph weighing 70 metric tonnes.
Obviously it is a big old lump and the pilot would sit above the main body of the engine
Or even a Kuznetsov NK-12 (?) 11,000 kW (15,000 hp)
You read stuff like this Turboprop - Wikipedia. saying turbo props best below 450mph, but then the A400M is doing 489mph at the size and weight of that thing. Surely if something as bonkers like the double turboprop like the Armstrong Siddley Double Mamba can power the hideous Fairey Gannet.
General characteristics
- Type: Three-shaft turboprop
- Length: 3.5 m (137.8 in)
- Diameter: 0.92 m (36.4 in)
- Propeller diameter: 5.30 m (17.39 ft; 530 cm; 208.7 in)[9]
- Dry weight: 1,890 kg (4,166.7 lb)
General characteristics
- Type: 12-cylinder supercharged liquid-cooled 60° Vee aircraft piston engine
- Bore: 6 in (152.4 mm)
- Stroke: 6.6 in (167.6 mm)
- Displacement: 2,240 in3 (36.7 L)
- Length: 81 in (2,057 mm)
- Width: 30.3 in (770 mm)
- Height: 46 in (1,168 mm)
- Dry weight: 1,980 lb (900 kg)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe.../600px-Paris_Air_Show_2017_Europrop_TP400.jpg
Was reading this on an A400M vs a C130J. https://www.militaryfactory.com/air...aft1=820&aircraft2=28&Submit=Compare+Aircraft
Got me thinking once googled the engine spec for the T400-D6 (11,000 hp (8,200 kW) ), could you build the ultimate single engined propeller power plane around such an engine?
Like a really upsized "Turbulence"
If you built something 2x the size in terms of frontal area but along the general look of that but with the pilot / passenger sitting above the lump. Where the prop sits vs the main body of the engine looks like it would work well (i.e. main part of engine lower than the prop allowing more of a conventional cockpit position ala P51 (with all the depth of that planes body directly below the pilot).
Like a bit bigger P51, a plane looking somewhere between a P51 and Turbulence would not be massive - obviously bigger than a P51, but would it really be any bigger than say a P47, but with a tad more power!!
The K12 probably too big.
If and Aibus A400M can do 489mph weighing 70 metric tonnes.
Obviously it is a big old lump and the pilot would sit above the main body of the engine
Or even a Kuznetsov NK-12 (?) 11,000 kW (15,000 hp)
You read stuff like this Turboprop - Wikipedia. saying turbo props best below 450mph, but then the A400M is doing 489mph at the size and weight of that thing. Surely if something as bonkers like the double turboprop like the Armstrong Siddley Double Mamba can power the hideous Fairey Gannet.
