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    A turbine engine failure occurs when a gas turbine engine unexpectedly stops producing power due to a malfunction other than fuel exhaustion. It often...
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    A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the...
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    of a gas turbine engine which achieves mechanical energy from combustion, and a ducted fan that uses the mechanical energy from the gas turbine to force...
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    rotates a turbine rotor. Each turbine disc has many blades. As such they are used in gas turbine engines and steam turbines. The blades are responsible...
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    Turbojet (redirect from Turbojet engine)
    airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine has an air inlet which...
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  • Core lock (category Jet engines)
    Core lock is a type of turbine engine failure that can occur during flight. When an engine is shut down in the air, some components cool faster than others...
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    for failing to develop an indigenous jet engine for fighter aircraft. Principal achievements of Gas Turbine Research Establishment include: Design and...
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    The Chrysler Turbine Car is an experimental two-door hardtop coupe powered by a turbine engine and was manufactured by Chrysler from 1963 to 1964. Italian...
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    free-turbine turboshaft is a form of turboshaft or turboprop gas turbine engine where the power is extracted from the exhaust stream of a gas turbine by...
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    The Chrysler turbine engine is a series of gas turbine engines developed by Chrysler intended to be used in road vehicles. In 1954, Chrysler Corporation...
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  • supplied by the gas turbine is augmented by bypass air passing through a ducted fan. The original air-breathing gas turbine jet engine was the turbojet....
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    speed. Modern aircraft generate power in the main engines or an additional fuel-burning turbine engine called an auxiliary power unit, which is often mounted...
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  • Flameout (redirect from Engine flame-out)
    aviation, a flameout (or flame-out) is the run-down of a jet engine or other turbine engine due to the extinguishment of the flame in its combustor. The...
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    engines, or may refer to the piston or turbine machinery alone, as in the beam engine and stationary steam engine. As noted, steam-driven devices such as...
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    and turbofan engines have additional turbine stages to drive a propeller, bypass fan or helicopter rotor. In a free turbine the turbine driving the compressor...
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    Rolls-Royce Trent 900 (category Rolls-Royce aircraft gas turbine engines)
    smaller low-pressure turbine tip clearances, and new coating for the high-pressure compressor drum, as well as an upgrade to the engine control (FADEC) software...
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    6-cylinder engine with the revving capacity of its short stroke and early power delivery of its small, ceramic wheeled turbochargers. The ceramic turbine wheels...
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    increase the horsepower potential of the engine, while also reducing exhaust gas temperatures (EGT). The turbine housing was changed to a .84 A/R and a...
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    Turboprop (redirect from Turboprop engine)
    is a gas turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller. A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction gearbox, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propelling...
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    Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 (category Airliner accidents and incidents involving uncontained engine failure)
    an uncontained, catastrophic turbine engine failure that caused debris from the front compressor hub of the left engine to penetrate the left aft fuselage...
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    blade failure. This has tended to limit their use in jet engines and gas turbines to the stator (stationary) blades. Ducted fan (shrouded) turbine. Many...
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    Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 (category Rolls-Royce aircraft gas turbine engines)
    suffered an uncontained engine failure of the intermediate turbine on a test stand. It was reported as being due to a fire in the engine oil system. Rolls-Royce...
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    typically applied to pistons (piston engine), turbine blades (gas turbine), a rotor (Wankel engine), or a nozzle (jet engine). This force moves the component...
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    Lycoming has been a principal pioneer of turbine engines for medium and large helicopters, and has also produced engines for small jetliners and business jets...
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    engine failure during flight where the entire fan module (blades and disc) and nose cowl on its number-four GP7270 engine separated from the engine....
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    ultimately lower power output. By altering the geometry of the turbine housing as the engine accelerates, the turbo's aspect ratio can be maintained at its...
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    power-to-weight ratio is much higher. A turbine of a given power output is also physically smaller than an equally powerful piston engine, so that a locomotive can...
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    General Electric CF6 (category High-bypass turbofan engines)
    The NTSB warned that the low-pressure turbine rotor disks could fail. Four uncontained failures of CF6-45/50 engines in the preceding two years prompted...
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    CFM International CFM56 (category High-bypass turbofan engines)
    designed new core and low-pressure turbine with single crystal high-pressure turbine and Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC). Fan blades are reduced...
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    LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 (category Airliner accidents and incidents involving uncontained engine failure)
    by the disintegration of a turbine disc in one of the plane's engines, leading to uncontained engine failure. The turbine shaft was later found to have...
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