Alan Minyard wrote in message . ..
On 13 Jun 2004 10:52:07 -0700, (robert arndt) wrote:
The Hungarians may have had their own indigneous project. Don't
forget they did have the worlds first turboprop in the 1930s. It
worked but had problems with the combustion chamber burn through.
Someting that could only be solved with hard work on the test stand or
good alloys.
And which turboprop would that be? My understanding is the british did it first, and it
was in the 1940s.
The Jendrassic CS-1 designed in 1938 and tested in August 1940. The
war stopped its production even though a specific aircraft was
designed to fly with it- the Hungarian RMI-1 X/H which was fitted with
DB engines instead and destroyed in a bombing raid.
Rob
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In other words, it never flew and was just another failed project.
Al Minyard
Hungarian, Gyorgy Jendrassik who worked for the Ganz wagon works in
Budapest designed the very first working turboprop engine in 1938.
Called the Cs-1, Jendrassik's engine was first tested in August of
1940; the Cs-1 was abandoned in 1941 without going into production due
to the War. Max Mueller designed the first turboprop engine that went
into production in 1942.
He will forever be remembered for making the worlds first turbo-prop.
At the time the little nation of Hungary was well ahead of the USA and
the UK in this field. One wonders what would have happened had the
USA and UK had a Soviet army 10 times the size bearing down on them.
Their turbo-prop engine worked but had combustion difficulties and
power and life were well down. Wheras the Germans had the resources
to build the massive test chambers (complete with multimega****t
refrigeration, water spray, alitude, instrumentation, wind tunnels
etc) to make the adjustments the Hungarians did not.
There is a picture of it he
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Lis...ginesOther.htm
I believe the very influential German Engineer Max Mueller designed
the first turboprop engine that went into production (for a test
program) in 1942 most likely under Heinkel. (he changed employment
from Junkers, Heinkel and Porche)
I'd have to check my sources though.