Pre-1980 VW Beetle Gas Turbine - Episode IV - A New Hope

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On the sort of reversed 3-wheeler Tumbler chassis, how do you get a rear wheel off on the side of the road if you get a flat?

This last weekend I built this hi-tech test stand for the turbine. Only the finest one-way pallet was used.



Wheeled out the fuel and start cart and did a few checks. Even more hi-tech as the start cart is Dexion based



Did I wire up the batteries correctly? Yup but both need charging.



Could I to get a start ? Nope. No volunteers available for fire control or manual fuel cutoff also I need one final fuel tail. Curse these mixed imperial and metric couplers. At least I have solved the filter problem with a new Sytec unit. Blue one too small with gravity fed fuel for testing. Why do I need a filter? Because I have had to chase out every tapped hole on the hydraulics tank I'm temporarily using for fuel and even with vacuum and oily rag tank clean out I can't be sure that I've got every bit of detritus. Not a fan of stripping the burner down because one of the 6 fuel sprayers is blocked.

Today after visiting my favourite trade counter and going through umpteen bins at Hyphose we have a contender



Start this weekend? Looks possible but in the meantime I had an email asking if I was interested in this.





It's a French Djinn reaction rotorcraft where compressed air is tapped off the turbine and fed to orifices on the rotor tips





Orifice



Bit flimsy though so it's a no from me.

I think I’d sooner risk taking to the air in something knocked up out of old pallets than one of those Djinn contraptions. 😱

Having been called 'Intrepid Birdman' by a local free sheet for ditching my 2nd Gen Hiway Cloudbase** hang glider in the waves* rather than take out a beach load of families when turbulence over some local cliffs mysteriously broke a stay wire I can tell you that the Djinn looks comparatively robust in comparison. My comment should have been that it looks like a challenge for someone younger, like you

* The sea was softer and luckily shallow enough

** Picture from t'internet. This was the deluxe multi-coloured version

Can you register a helicopter as a microlight to get round red tape?

I suppose being French a "sans permis" may be more appropriate. Also is that a J engine on top of the turbine on the yellow one?

Too heavy at around 500kgs as a Microlight.



To keep weight down they had a starting handle to begin with. I'd like to see that being demonstrated. Then they had a strap-on auxiliary Lavalette 49cc two-stroke as in the picture and finally ended up with the electric start they should have begun with.

Bookmarked this one. Can I ask what the 46000 rpm changes in the design of a gearbox? I suppose a few superduper bearings are a thing here, as would decent balancing of everything rotating at that speed. What You have drawn, pretty much looks like this:
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Just a thought if the making it yourself bit turns out more challenging than you thought...