That's interesting - Water Injection in jet engines. Never heard of it done. John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Pomgranite Peter T. Owsianowski wrote: > A KC-135 tanker pilot told me they used to run the big GE engines on those > planes (modified 707's) with water injection. He said it was very noisy. > > -- > Pete > '79 Westy "Aardvark" > '87 Westy "Joe's Van" > WWW. Busesbythebeach.com > > > On 5/24/08, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote: > >> During WW II the Navy F4U Corsair and the Navy Hellcat had radial >> engines that used a water injection system that enabled those engines >> to achieve "Military Power" from the engines or in other words - achieve >> substantial power above the engines design capability for sustained >> maximum power. This water injection system enabled many a pilot to save >> his butt in a dogfight with Japanese pilots. >> >> Does anyone on The List have any knowledge about this, and whether there >> has ever been any effort to try and use the principle to extract more >> power for an automotive engine or increase mileage per gallon? >> >> John Rodgers >> 88 GL Driver >> Pomgranite >> >> > > > |
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