Yes, very nice, but where is the air intake for the turbine?
Jet powered firetruck- lifeontop.com: How about a firetruck with a jet turbine engine from a Russian MIG fighter jet? I wonder if that could catch some attention around town. This monster houses the largest turbine motor in a land vehicle anywhere in the world. This puppy has enough power to blow over a full sized SUV.
The engine is 27ft. long and 5.5 ft. in diameter. The firetruck is a 2003 Ferrara pumper with the tanks removed to shove the turbine in.
Click the link above to see more pictures.
This doesn’t appear to be a turboshaft engine. Are they moving the truck with plane thrust from the jet engine? If so, how do they do reverse? I dont see any, nor do I think that a thrust reverser would work well on the back of the truck. Also, do you thinkl they use bleed air to power the accesories (power steering etc???), or do they still have the original engine for reverse and oll of the other functions.
If this is the real thing, it probably for exhibition purposes, parades, tractor pulls, monster truck rallys, etc.
Is this for putting out fires or starting them?
If its even real, where exactly do they use it? Certainly they cannot ride truck powered with a jet engine in a city… more likely in a well-deserted and flat areas, which kinda make it useless or at least not for the purposes fire trucks are made for.
This is a show piece for monster truck stadium shows or dragstrips. My guess is the jet fuel is in the tanks on top in back of the cab. The air intake is ducted to the big vents cut in the side of the cab. They probably set the brakes, light the jet, get a nice flame cone and afterburner sound coming out of the engine. It probably still has the stock engine and tranny to get around without the jet engine.
So it’ll constantly start fires as it goes and puts them out?
Heres a link to a similar truck at an air show.
http://tinyurl.com/3cg72h
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cool 🙂
I wonder how much it cost to fill the tank for 1 jet ride 😉
Hello 911 my house is on fire and… Oh the Fire dept.’s here?
From what I understand (and have seen on film) a Hungarian oil well fire team first did this during the Kuwaiti oil fires in the early 90s (see the Imax film “Fires of Kuwait”). They mounted not one but TWO Mig engines on a Soviet tank turret and let ‘er rip. FOK shows this in action and it pretty awesome. Sorry I don’t have the full technical details to hand (I’m on the road), but this is well documented.