The Shannons Insurance Power Palooza marks the official opening of the Perth Motorplex season and combines drag racing with speedway and burnouts for a triple-treat of motorsport. If we could break into the seven second zone for the quarter mile (402m) and go over 200mph (320kmh) that would make us happy,” he said. “I’ve so far only had one meeting where the runs were timed. When Wood pulls to the start line at the Shannons Insurance Power Palooza, he will be chasing a couple of personal barriers to break. But for the land speed cars on the salt flats where you have the taps wide open and a long run up, they are the way to go.” “Jet engines aren’t so great for most racing, even drag racing, because they don’t spool up very quickly. You can get 1000 horsepower from a turbine engine and it will do it for 30,000 hours so long as you keep pouring fuel in. “When I looking at engines for a land speed car, I found you could easily make big power with a piston engine but there was a lot of maintenance. “I happened to see the dragster up for sale and I’m not getting any younger I wanted to drive something with a turbine. “I have no background in aviation, just an interest in engines,” he said. He is currently building a land speed record car equipped with a helicopter engine and even once bought a turbine starter (effectively a small jet motor) from eBay to play with. 'The behavior of the Westinghouse electronic power regulator operating on a J34-WE-32 turbojet engine was investigated in the NACA Lewis altitude wind tunnel at the request of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of the Navy. Wood himself has had a long term interest in turbine motors. The car itself was built by Australian land speed record holder Rosco McGlashan during the nineties. The turbine and afterburner saw action in a fighter plane during the Korean War before finding its way into the hands of curious speed demons. The Westinghouse J34 engine in Wood’s dragster is a surprisingly old motor, built over half a century ago. A new design following the rapid industry progress was needed. The J30 was the first American-designed turbojet to run, and was used in the McDonnell FH Phantom.The enlarged J34 was obsolete when introduced, but moderately successful. “It is even fairly quiet in the seat, all the noise is behind me! I don’t wear ear plugs or anything, I’m just watching the gauges to make sure everything behaves until the end and getting ready to release the parachutes at the finish line.” Westinghouse Electric Corporation established the Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division (AGT) in 1945. “It is like taking off in a commercial jet, but with three times as much acceleration and of course you are out in the wind,” he said. Wood said the experience of being in the cockpit of ‘Banshee’ was more familiar than one might think.
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The pilot of the ‘Banshee’ will be a part of the Shannons Insurance Power Palooza on Saturday, October 26 at Perth Motorplex, joining fellow jet dragster driver Pieter DeWit’s ‘Iron Horse’ to put on a spectacular show for spectators. These data are presented in the form of reproductions of oscillographic traces.Driving a jet dragster is just like taking off in a commercial flight, only a whole bunch faster according to West Australian drag racer Ian Wood. Representative preliminary data showing the actual time response of these variables are presented. Recordings of the response of the following parameters to step changes in power lever position throughout the available operating range of the engine were obtained ram pressure ratio, compressor-discharge pressure, exhaust-nozzle area, engine speed, turbine-outlet temperature, fuel-valve position, jet thrust, air flow, turbine-discharge pressure, fuel flow, throttle position, and boost-pump pressure. The object of the program was to determine the, steady-state stability and transient characteristics of the engine under control at various altitudes and ram pressure ratios, without afterburning. Preliminary Performance Data on Westinghouse Electronic Power Regulator Operating on J34-WE-32 Turbojet Engine in Altitude Wind Tunnel The behavior of the Westinghouse electronic power regulator operating on a J34-WE-32 turbojet engine was investigated in the NACA Lewis altitude wind tunnel at the request of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of the Navy.
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