Found this today. Variable timing and lift. Interesting. Video Shows Inner Workings Of Koenigsegg’s Camless Engine
My Truck Mechanics teacher in high school talked about that technology be the next big thing in engines. That was in 1987!
My uncle [still]owns a shop in our hometown on LI, where brother cut his mechanic teeth in H.S. He read a magazine on his break one day in the front desk area- ceramic engines-crazy longevity ..... Where they be now? Buried in someone's (read=corporations) patent hoard....
i wanted to do it with electric solenoids in 1978, high school shop class, used starter solenoids, never got it to work but close.
They are applying it to turbine blading, where firing temperature is the main barrier to raising efficiency. Coupled with the ability to create parts with 3D printers ceramic matrix composites are the future. From a rotational mass perspective huge reductions in turbine wheel mass can be made, and the blade roots are much simpler to create. GE has successfully tested the technology in aeroderivative engines
you just got smartah GE Successfully Tests World’s First Rotating Ceramic Matrix Composite Material for Next-Gen Combat Engine | Press Release | GE Aviation
Hehehe... so Mr Basod... is this kinda sorta what you do down there in Alibami? This one line in that article got my attention... I bet it'll make more than a few of the first pilots sweat a little who test this new stuff from 30,000' up... "The introduction of rotating CMC components into the hottest and hardest-working sections of jet engines represents a significant technology breakthrough for GE and the jet propulsion industry."
operating and maintaining them. They are a smidge bigger than the ones hanging off plane wings. They're kinda thirsty, had them running this past week on diesel at minimum load 138gpm This is one in construction phase, none of the jungle gym of piping is attached to all the blanks
Wow... very cool. Did you ever have anything to do with the GE plant in Bangor before you headed down that way? An amazing company.
No, I worked for a machine shop in Westbrook that manufactured parts for GE when I was in college. Wasn't a whole lotta opportunity as far as jobs in Maine back then, and from talking with my father not much has changed.
Well, I make one small comment about a memory of my teen years........ And WHAM!!!! basod and Stinny are having a discussion about crazy engines and peas Actually, very interesting, basod, I really like that picture of that......engine
