revolutionary innovation for sustainable engines turboprop

[freebeard]

blog.geaerospace.com/tag/revolutionary-innovation-for-sustainable-engines/

I hear that contra-rotating props are noisy, but this uses a[n apparently variable pitch] stationary stator behind the propellor to get 20% less fuel consumption and CO2 emmisions. Wouldn't that imply quieter than a single propellor?

So my question becomes -- If one had ab argumentum a P-51 Mustang, and retro-fitted this arrangement, would it make an exemplary pylon racer?

[freebeard]

So nobody cares about propellors?

How about 3D printing wood so you don't have to cut down a tree?

https://news.mit.edu: Toward customizable timber, grown in a lab

Researchers show they can control the properties of lab-grown plant material, which could enable the production of wood products with little waste.
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
Publication Date:May 25, 2022

In an effort to provide an environmentally friendly and low-waste alternative, researchers at MIT have pioneered a tunable technique to generate wood-like plant material in a lab, which could enable someone to “grow” a wooden product like a table without needing to cut down trees, process lumber, etc.

These researchers have now demonstrated that, by adjusting certain chemicals used during the growth process, they can precisely control the physical and mechanical properties of the resulting plant material, such as its stiffness and density.

They also show that, using 3D bioprinting techniques, they can grow plant material in shapes, sizes, and forms that are not found in nature and that can’t be easily produced using traditional agricultural methods.

To begin the process of growing plant material in the lab, the researchers first isolate cells from the leaves of young Zinnia elegans plants. The cells are cultured in liquid medium for two days, then transferred to a gel-based medium, which contains nutrients and two different hormones.

Adjusting the hormone levels at this stage in the process enables researchers to tune the physical and mechanical properties of the plant cells that grow in that nutrient-rich broth.

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They use a 3D printer to extrude the cell culture gel solution into a specific structure in a petri dish, and let it incubate in the dark for three months. Even with this incubation period, the researchers’ process is about two orders of magnitude faster than the time it takes for a tree to grow to maturity, Velásquez-García says.

[Piotrsko]

Back in the day my company made pieces for the GE version. For all I know, that project went into a back closet when it threw a blade and damaged the test airframe it was hung on. Apparently it kinda worked like a really low geared transmission, but was disappointing in efficiency, is what I heard from test pilots at Mojave airport.