Object Details
- Manufacturer
- General Electric Aircraft Engines
- Physical Description
- Type: Turbojet
- Thrust: 7,161 N (1,610 lb) at 16,500rpm
- Compressor: Single-stage centrifugal
- Combustor: 10 reverse-flow chambers
- Turbine: Single-stage axial
- Weight: 386 kg (850 lb)
- Summary
- Early flight tests of the first General Electric turbojet engine, the Type I-A, clearly showed the need for more powerful engines. GE followed with designs generating increased thrust, including the I-16, designated J31 by the military, which first ran in April 1943. About 250 were built, mainly for variants of the Bell P-59 Airacomet.
- When the government believed that future tactical needs would require turbojet engines to use the same fuel as reciprocating engines, GE further developed the engine for the U.S. Navy as a 100-octane, gasoline-burning version of the standard J31 engine, which normally ran on kerosene fuel. That version, along with a Wright R-1820 piston engine, powered the Ryan FR-1 Fireball, the Navy's first partially jet-powered aircraft.
- Credit Line
- Found in collection
- Circa World War II
- Inventory Number
- A19790120000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PROPULSION-Turbines (Jet)
- Materials
- HAZ MAT: Cadmium
- Possible HAZ MAT: Asbestos
- Aluminum Alloy
- Ferrous Alloy (Steel Most Likely)
- Paint
- Unidentified Coating
- Adhesive Tape
- Paper
- Adhesive
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 182.9 × 102.9 × 101.6cm, 385.6kg (6 ft. × 3 ft. 4 1/2 in. × 3 ft. 4 in., 850lb.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19790120000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv91eb6ec4d-7c12-4ae9-9195-b354af0c665d
