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Old 07 May 2008, 22:44   #1
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And it runs on fuel that costs 52p per litre.......

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Afterthought: what happens when the prop comes out of the water?
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what happens when the prop comes out of the water?

lift - Flight - crunch - Death
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I do not think you can put a rev. limiter on a gas turbine. So what happens when the prop. comes out and the load is removed. Also turbines have a throttle response delay of about 2 secs. going up and down. That could be scary.
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I do not think you can put a rev. limiter on a gas turbine. So what happens when the prop. comes out and the load is removed. Also turbines have a throttle response delay of about 2 secs. going up and down. That could be scary.
They are almost common in larger boats - they run with a disc over run brake and Outerlimits do a 53 footer I believe, there are Youtube videos of it running - very impressive! MTI are another US company that do them:
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probably still not fast enough for mr cookee
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Cool but if anything like every other gas turbine the fuel consumption will be epic!

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Don't forget to wear some hearing protection when using those turbines.







Whaaaaaaaaaaat?








I SAID, DON'T FORGET YOUR HEARING PROTECTION!









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