Now to the difficult bit… The turbine wheel at the back of the engine sees ~600°C while under very high stress – engines this size typically idle at 30,000 RPM, and can run to over 100,000 RPM (I remind you that mine hasn’t even done 1 RPM yet!) The best materials to use for the…
Jet Engine
Home made gas turbine jet engine to the design in the book by Thomas Kamps.