Soaring

Here's another piston driven engine.
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The largest internal combustion engine ever built is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C - a 14 cylinder, 2 stroke, turbocharged diesel engine that was designed to power the Emma Maersk, the largest container ship in the world. It weighs 2300 tonnes, and when running at 102rpm produces 109,000bhp, consuming some 13.7 tonnes of fuel each hour.<<<<

scott_m_mil

I'm not sure that that bike made 50,000 it sounds like the dyno withstood lots of runs if i read it rights

crunchyskippy

I like the turbine engine idea...

Didn't the SR-71 engine have no moving parts at supersonic speed? I remember something about that it utilized the airpressure to spontaneously combust once the fuel was applied...

If I find more info, I'll post (as long as we're off topic)

grruminator78

ohhh did I read it wrong??? it's been a long day thanks scott

grruminator78

http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/sr-71/

grruminator78

but isn't it supposed to be rope started??

scott_m_mil

I thought turbine myself...but it doesn't technically have a stroke either?

crunchyskippy

Nice find. Apparently the word I was looking for was "Ram Jet" technology. Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjets

grruminator78

NP google is my best friend!

P Zero

The sr used a kerosene based fuel that was at something like -100*. It was used in part to help cool the plane at mach 8 (or however fsat it went).
-P.