9/8/2015 Susan Mumm, Media Specialist
Written by Susan Mumm, Media Specialist
The new equipment joins the Olympus, once used on the supersonic Concorde airliner and available for public viewing over the past year in the basement of Talbot Laboratory on the Urbana campus.
Every day, students coming to the building for classes and labs will have hands-on exposure to the engines and equipment. The displays also can be featured in events such as Engineering Open House and other outreach activities that impact future engineers.
The Model 250 is one of the most successful small turbine engines ever developed. Formerly the Allison 250, the Model 250 engine originally was designed to meet a military requirement for a 250-shaft horsepower (shp) turboshaft. It has since spawned a range of civil and military variants – including turboprops, missile engines and gensets – and today produces ratings in excess of 800 shaft horsepower.
The J35 engine was built in the late 1940s and was the United States Air Force’s first axial flow turbojet. The propeller blades were used on the Lockheed C-130A aircraft from the mid 1950s until 2004.