The Incredible Rediscovery of Ford's 1of1 Turbine SemiTruck
During late 1950s and into the early 1960s the world was turbine crazy and as propellors gave way to fans, the companies building the compact and powerful engines were looking for all sorts of applications to put their machines to work on. If they could fly ever larger planes, ever increasing distances what else could they do?
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First seen at the 1964 World's Fair alongside a fun new car called the Mustang, Ford's "Big Red" was the automaker's experimental gas turbine semi-truck, a moonshot experiment built to lift.
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Ford's long-missing behemoth was designed under the watchful eye of automotive engineer Roy Lunn—he of the Ford GT40, the mid-engine Mustang I concept, the XJ Jeep Cherokee and more. The name Big.
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Turbine engines enjoyed quite a bit of fame in the 1960s. Concept cars whirred and whooshed around auto shows, and even the Indy 500 felt the hot breath of turbine-powered roadsters. On the.
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The rear-engine JET 1 lit up at 3000 rpm, with its compressor turbine's speed at 40,000 rpm and the power turbine maxing out at 26,000 rpm. The idling speed was an impressive 13,000 rpm!
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The advantages seemed clear: Jet turbines are smoother at all speeds, they have far fewer moving parts, they can run on multiple kinds of fuel, they're easier to start in colder climates and it.
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Half a century ago, Fleet Owner explored a future that ultimately would never emerge: heavy trucks, highway freight transport and passenger cars powered by turbine engines.
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Arguably the most famous of all turbine-powered car from the 1950s-'60s though was the Chrysler Turbine of 1963-64. Chrysler's gas turbine project began in 1945, when the Detroit vehicle giant began developing a turboprop aircraft engine for the United States Navy, learning much useful knowledge along the way and beginning to examine the potential of mounting a turbine in an automobile.
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This is the story of Ford's 'Big Red' Turbine truck from the '60s, and how it nearly disappeared from the face of Earth after years and years of collecting dust in a warehouse. The year.
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A freakin' turbine. Behold the new Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience concept truck, or WAVE for short. Developed with the help of Peterbilt and Capstone Turbine, the WAVE looks positively bad.
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Which brings us to the RetroROCKET: a Chevy S-10 with some throwback mods reminiscent of a 1940 Ford. While the outside evokes nostalgia, the powerplant is a Rolls Royce-Allison 250-C20B turbine.
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A jet engine is a machine that converts energy-rich, liquid fuel into a powerful pushing force called thrust. The thrust from one or more engines pushes a plane forward, forcing air past its scientifically shaped wings to create an upward force called lift that powers it into the sky. That, in short, is how planes work —but how do jet engines work?