AUXILIARY GAS TURBINES for Pneumatic Power in Aircraft Applications

500176

01/01/1950

Event
Pre-1964 SAE Technical Papers
Authors Abstract
Content
PROPOSED in this paper, for which its authors are receiving the Wright Brothers Medal for 1949, is an all-pneumatic system to provide the auxiliary power required by turbine-propelled multiengine aircraft.
Compressed air to drive various auxiliary power consumers is obtained by extraction from the compressors of the main propulsion turbines and from a special form of auxiliary gas turbine.
This turbine is effective primarily when the main engines are inoperative, and it may be used to start the latter.
By proper use of air extracted from the main engines, fuel consumption chargeable to auxiliary power appears, according to the authors, to be as low as for any competitive system. Furthermore, the amount of air extracted is shown to be well within generally accepted limits.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/500176
Pages
21
Citation
WOOD, H., and DALLENBACH, F., "AUXILIARY GAS TURBINES for Pneumatic Power in Aircraft Applications," SAE Technical Paper 500176, 1950, https://doi.org/10.4271/500176.
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Published
Jan 1, 1950
Product Code
500176
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English