Darrel Toepfer wrote:

Ron Hardin wrote:

Well, you've got this combustion chamber, and you add fuel, and
ignite it.

It's open on the front and the back.

Why doesn't the combustion product simply blow out the front and
the back both? Leaving you sitting on the runway exactly where
you started.

The buzz bomb solved this in the only sensible way. The vanes shut
and then you blow up the fuel. So the Germans saw the problem.

Starter motor (electric or otherwise) starts the blades spinning to get
the sucking and blowing cycle geauxing... Don't introduce fuel and
ignite it until adequate RPM's are established...

Of course, the exhaust blowing out the front turns the turbine backwards,
and the exhaust blowing out the back turns it forwards. You're where you
started, in explaining it.
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Ron Hardin


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