NEW FRENCH JET ENGINE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27207, 26 November 1953, Page 8

NEW FRENCH JET ENGINE

Annular Combustion Chambers Used (Special Correspondent NX» (Rec. 8 p".m.) LONDON, Novemhi An attempt is being made k. nationalised French aero-engfao« pany to enter the field of bi® jet engine production, says the Chester Guardian.” The company has already an engine based on a German tS and it now has on bench test the powerful jet engine yet produt? France, the Vulcain. .^ i \u cng . ine gives ab °ut IDA static thrust. *** “Most of the details have been l secret, but it is now knowntL? has an annular combustion cwt and that the turbine is a sinslS? unit An electric starter is fitter* 1 " “In these respects, the enS, . fers from most British types, tv use separate combustion ‘cans' either cordite or turbine starta? J special fuel. “There appears to be a eleav.» opinion between British and oth. signers on the value of the m, combustion chamber, a rinaA chamber where combustion is 3 uous. “Early German jet engines had, kind of chamber, but most ott,, gines had separate ‘cans.’ Todsv J of the most advanced AmeS,. engines including the WestuX with which Commander Verdin w world speed record, have annuljl bustion chambers. “One or two new British engine ,■ are now using annular conS chambers.”