My thought was that if the turbine system on the gop kart had 1500 hp then
it should have vanished instantly. The M1 Abrams tank has a 1500 hp turbine
and it moves right along, all 63 tons of it.....I bet that little bitty
thing on the go kart could not do that at all. I wonder how they estimated
the power? Or whatever it was they was smoking....
mayf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Savage" <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>
To: "Higginbotham Land Speed Racing" <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>
Cc: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>; "Mike Lackey" <mike_lackey@yahoo.com>;
"LandSpeed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Turbine HP
> The Atlas booster's turbopump was a little thing and it was rated at
> about 1,500 hp. As I recall, the turbine and the LPGG (Liquid Propellant
> Gas Generator) would fit in a 5 gal can. Service life was something like
> 200 seconds.
>
> Bryan (really stretching the old memory, I worked on the Atlas F
> program in '61 & '62)
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