2020年11月16日 · A typical modern turboprop, the 1,020 horsepower Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6, has an SFC of 0.62. This is slightly better than the XT36, which required a heat exchanger to reach an SFC of 0.66. Furthermore, the PT-6 is 19 inches in diameter, 76 inches long and weighs 490 pounds; whereas Chrysler's XT36 was 40 inches in diameter, 90 inches long ...

2020年11月16日 · Al Bosley wrote a good deal more about the people involved in the V16 and later turboprop engine projects. Flight testing results by Curtis Redgap and David Zatz Two specially built Republic Thunderbolt XP-47H planes, with extended noses, were used to test the Chrysler 16-cylinder XIV-2220 engine in 1945.

2020年11月16日 · Chrysler's turbine program dated back to World War II. In 1945, Chrysler had been issued a contract by the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics to develop a turboprop engine. Work on an automotive version of the engine didn't begin in earnest until 1949 when the Navy contract ran out.

2020年11月16日 · As a result of this work, Chrysler was awarded, in the fall of 1945, a research and development contract by the Bureau of Aeronautics of the U. S. Navy to create a turboprop engine for aircraft. This program - although terminated in 1949 - resulted in the development of a turboprop engine which achieved fuel economy approaching that of aircraft ...

2014年6月5日 · A feature story in yesterday's "Los Angeles Times" Business section tells about how Ford is trying to knock 800 - 900 lbs out of the weight of their mid sized Fusion sedan to achieve new heights in mileage, possibly more than 45mpg on the highway. Among some ideas being tried are carbon fiber &...

2020年11月16日 · Creating turboprop engines (postwar) Chrysler and the atomic bomb: Chrysler's surprising role in building the first atomic bomb and the facility that refined the US's weapons-grade uranium through 1985. Dodge trucks and Patton's Red Ball Express; Wartime cars: sales and production of Chrysler and other vehicles during World War II.