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Jet Propulsion
Jet Propulsion
Contents
• History
• Types of Jet engines
• Major components
• Working
• Advanced Jet planes
History of Jet Engines
• Sir Isaac Newton in the 18th century was the first to theorize that
a rearward-channeled explosion could propel a machine forward at a great
rate of speed. This theory was based on his third law of motion.
As the hot air blasts backwards through the nozzle the plane moves forward.
• Henri Giffard built an airship which was powered by the first aircraft engine,
a three-horse power steam engine. It was very heavy, too heavy to fly.
• In 1874, Felix de Temple, built a monoplane that flew just a short hop
down a hill with the help of a coal fired steam engine.
• Otto Daimler in the late 1800's, invented the first gasoline engine.
• In 1903, the Wright Brothers flew, "The Flyer", with a 12 horse power
gas powered engine.
• It was Frank Whittle, a British pilot, who designed the first turbo jet engine
in 1930.The first Whittle engine successfully flew in April, 1937.
This engine featured a multistage compressor, and a combustion chamber,
a single stage turbine and a nozzle.
• The first jet airplane to successfully use this type of engine was the
German Heinkel He 178 invented by Hans Von Ohain.
It was the world's first turbojet powered flight.
The W2/700 engine flew in the
Gloster E.28/39, the first British
aircraft to fly with a turbojet
engine, and the Gloster Meteor.
A jet engine is an engine that
discharges a fast moving jet of fluid to
generate thrust in accordance with
Newton's third law of motion.
Types Of Jet engines
•Water Jets
•Motor Jets
•Turbo jets
•Turbo fans
•Rockets
•Ramjets
TURBO JET ENGINES
Working principle
Jet engines are also called as gas turbines. The
engine sucks air in at the front with a fan. A
compressor raises the pressure of the air. The
compressed air is then sprayed with fuel and an
electric spark lights the mixture. The burning gases
expand and blast out through the nozzle, at the
back of the engine. As the jets of gas shoot
backward, the engine and the aircraft are thrust
forward.
Major components
• Air intake
• Compressors
• Combustors
• Turbines
• Nozzles
• Fuel system
• Cooling system
Intermediate components
• Turbo pumps
• Afterburners( reheat)
• Thrust reversers
AIR INTAKE
Fan-The fan is a first component in a turbo fan.
The large spinning fan sucks in large quantity of
air. Most of the fan blades are made up of titanium.
It then speeds this air up and splits it into two
parts. One part continues through the “core” or
center of the jet engine, where it is acted upon by
other jet engine components.
The second part “bypasses” the core of the
jet engine. It goes through a duct which
surrounds the core to the back of jet engine
where it produces much of force that propels