willedoo Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 Here's a couple of photos of re-cycled Mig-15 Klimov VK-1 turbojet engines used as airstrip snow blowers and aircraft de-icer's in Russian airports. These were basically a clone of the Rolls Royce Nene. [ATTACH=full]1273[/ATTACH] This high mounted version with the extended exhaust is used for de-icing aircraft. [ATTACH=full]1274[/ATTACH] This one's for clearing railway tracks & still has the cockpit and part of the fuselage. [ATTACH=full]1275[/ATTACH] Water injected jets mounted on a tank and used to blow out oil well fires in the First Gulf War. Don't know what engines they are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGDxglTVgA Cheers, Willie. [ATTACH]18231[/ATTACH]
TAA Student Pilot Posted June 29, 2012 Posted June 29, 2012 By the look of the tank on that high mounted one there'd only be enough fuel in the round tank for mebe 1.5 hours running :eek:
willedoo Posted June 30, 2012 Author Posted June 30, 2012 Found this link to a lengthy blow by blow description of the oil field fire suppression rig in the above video. Interesting reading if you like that sort of thing. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/stilling-the-fires-of-war Apparently it was based on a WW2 T34 Russian tank, and was designed by an Arab owned, Hungarian drilling company, using a Russian idea. The engines are Tumansky R-25's, which were used in the Mig-21bis. The T34 was retired after the Gulf fires and the rig was then placed on a T55 tank, as in the photo in the linked article. It's a bit of a beast. Cheers, Willie.
willedoo Posted June 30, 2012 Author Posted June 30, 2012 By the look of the tank on that high mounted one there'd only be enough fuel in the round tank for mebe 1.5 hours running :eek: At a rough guess at the size of the tank and fuel consumption, I recon you'd be fairly close to the money there, Student Pilot. Cheers, Willie.
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