Well - I think there is a correction needed in your statement. I worked for a
Company that made the fans or blades for air plane motors. They always referred
to them fan # XXX depending on the pitch of the blades. The Company is in San
Diego off Balboa - If i remember correctly it was called Turbo Mach. They were
a division of Sundstrand Aviation. I supported Sundstrands Networks and
facillities in Arizona, Caifornia, Colorado, Navada and Washington State. So i
guess they do call them fans when being made. I think in the 4 years i worked
for them i went to most of there locations in the US.
Vigil
Weslake1330@aol.com wrote:
A gas turbine is a gas turbine whether it drives a propellor a fan or just
produces thrust. Jet engines aren't called turbofans or turbothrusts so why
turboprops?
A turbocharger is not a turbine it is a compressor driven by a turbine.
Gee, ask a single question!!!
W E S L A K E 1330
In a message dated 17/01/2008 08:35:51 GMT Standard Time,
guy.weller@tiscali.co.uk writes:
Either that, or the term "Jet Prop" used loosely,
means Jet Propelled, (as opposed to IC) and not
Jet Propeller.
What a difference a single letter makes!
Guy
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content.
> When did turboprop aircraft become jet prop? Is
it the same engine only
> they finally thought up a more accurate name for
it since the turboprop
> doesn't
> have a turbocharger because it's a jet?
W E S L A K E ,
Think about it a little bit more... A turbocharger
is called that because it
has a turbine inside there that is turned by the
exhaust gas. A turboprop is
called that because it has a propeller which is
turned by, guess what? Yup,
a turbine. It is a perfectly accurate term.
David Lieb
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