Re-cycled Jet Engines

[willedoo]

Here's a couple of photos of re-cycled Mig-15 Klimov VK-1 turbojet engines used as airstrip snow blowers and aircraft de-icer's in Russian airports.

 

These were basically a clone of the Rolls Royce Nene.

 

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This high mounted version with the extended exhaust is used for de-icing aircraft.

 

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This one's for clearing railway tracks & still has the cockpit and part of the fuselage.

 

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Water injected jets mounted on a tank and used to blow out oil well fires in the First Gulf War.

 

Don't know what engines they are.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGDxglTVgA

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

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[TAA Student Pilot]

By the look of the tank on that high mounted one there'd only be enough fuel in the round tank for mebe 1.5 hours running :eek:

 

 

[willedoo]

Found this link to a lengthy blow by blow description of the oil field fire suppression rig in the above video. Interesting reading if you like that sort of thing.

 

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/stilling-the-fires-of-war

 

Apparently it was based on a WW2 T34 Russian tank, and was designed by an Arab owned, Hungarian drilling company, using a Russian idea. The engines are Tumansky R-25's, which were used in the Mig-21bis. The T34 was retired after the Gulf fires and the rig was then placed on a T55 tank, as in the photo in the linked article.

 

It's a bit of a beast.

 

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

[willedoo]

By the look of the tank on that high mounted one there'd only be enough fuel in the round tank for mebe 1.5 hours running :eek:

At a rough guess at the size of the tank and fuel consumption, I recon you'd be fairly close to the money there, Student Pilot.

Cheers, Willie.