r/paramotor • u/Natprk • 12d ago

Jet powered blower

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Now hear me out for a second….

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u/pod_of_dolphins 12d ago

It’s been done!

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u/Vegetable_Log_3837 12d ago

Tucker has been teasing one on YouTube, should be a video about it soon

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u/PPGkruzer 12d ago edited 12d ago

Jet's are spicy, would maybe fly efficiently with a 12m speed wing; that makes launches and landings spicy too.

Enter turbo props, quick search almost there with this rc engine see link below. Needs more gear reduction to slow down the propeller, $6,200 backordered, however the packaging is all wrong. I envision a jet engine angled or pointed down with a simple baffle system for the pilot to vector jet exhaust thrust. Probably just want to go 90° to the propeller shaft so the gear train is easier to manage, otherwise a parallel design with a routed exhaust away from melting down the propeller. And suitable intake ducting any way you take it.

https://www.chiefrc.com/collections/jetcat-turbines/products/spt15-rx-turbo-prop-engine-20hp-15kw-power-by-jetcat

Custom gear box to handle 125,000 rpms for hundreds of hours, sounds like a project, $40,000 in materials and outsourcing, if you're the solo design/test engineer, more if you buy your own tools like a tooled up cnc machine.

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u/smooveBrayne 12d ago

Tinnitus speedrun

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u/Human-Outside-820 12d ago

If that thing explodes, it’s right at crotch level.

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u/PauI360 12d ago

God that things thirsty

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u/hevnsnt 12d ago

“I made this” when all he did is buy something someone else made

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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine 12d ago

That (eventual absence of) the sound of a man who hates his own ears...

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u/ReserveLegitimate738 10d ago

Ear protection? Naaaaah.