Jet Engine Plans

This section of the page presents details of the Gluhareff pressure jet, an air breathing engine with no moving parts apart from valves.
The Gluhareff pressure jet is a remarkable engine. It is a pure jet, producing thrust using the standard open Brayton cycle sequence of compression, heat addition by combustion, and expansion.

However, unlike the gas turbine, the work required for compression of the air is not obtained by mechanical work extracted by a turbine in the hot gas stream. Instead, the compression is driven by a Rankine cycle using the propane fuel as the working fluid.

Heat from the exhaust gas is used to vaporize the pressurized liquid fuel. The hot, high pressure propane gas is then expanded through a sonic nozzle into a series of intake ducts, where it entrains and compresses enough air to support approximately stoichiometric combustion.

The three entrainment ducts have specific lengths, which results in acoustical pumping of the air well in excess of the compression achievable by simple momentum exchange between the fuel gas and air.

The engine has no moving parts except for a throttle control valve. In contrast, a gas turbine engine has rapidly rotating, highly stressed components, some of which are operated at the temperature limits of materials for hot oxidizing environments.

The lack of moving parts makes this engine very lightweight and cheap, compared not only to a turbine engine, but even to a mass produced automotive engine. However, the current engine runs hot, has a high frontal area per unit thrust, and a somewhat awkward geometry.

The Pressure jet Engine has a fuel consumption in between rocket and turbine propulsion, but at a lower cost than either.

The engine in the plans is the G8-2-5. The pressure jet was invented and developed by one man, Eugene M. Gluhareff

Plans for a Russian Designed Pulse Jet - This is a scaled down version of a large pulse jet designed with model flight in mind.

The instructions for this model have had a cursory translation from Russian and although not perfect the instructions are easily followed.

Plans are in pdf format and are 610kb in size

The following papers are from Mechanical Engineers studing for Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. They are in pdf format and are free to download

There is a great amount of information, plans, test results and failures detailed in the reports - a must read if you are planning on building a homemade Pulse Jet Engine.

Mechanical Engineering Pulse Jet Paper 1 - 2.64mb

Mechanical Engineering Pulse Jet Paper 2 - 2.8mb

Mechanical Engineering Pulse Jet Paper 3 - 2.38mb

Click on the underlined links to download the documents

A Step By Step Guide with detailed instructions on how to make your own homemade turbo jet engine from a turbocharger

This Booklet was written by E Springer in 2001 and is a commonly quoted source for Turbocharger based Jet Turbines

Download this booklet free of charge by clicking on the link below

Turbocharger Jet Engine Booklet - 4.3mb in pdf format

Jet Engine Plans

This page contains downloadable plans and information on working miniature jet turbine engines

The plans are of models that are generally regarded as obsolete in the rc jet world, but they are an ideal starter if you wish to make your own jet engine

Research the subject well before you start. There are lots of forums, groups and websites to help you.

I purchased "Gas Turbine Engines for Model Aircraft" by Kurt Schreckling, ISBN 0951058916 Traplet Publications - all you need to start.

I would not recommend making one to put on an aircraft and fly - buy one, it is cheaper in the long run - See PST Jets Thailand for good quality proven engines.

A few photo's of my MK2 Jet Turbine Engine

Free Jet Engine Plans for Download

Gluhareff Pressure Jet

Russian PuVRD A-7 Pulse Jet

Jet Motor Model ZME Pulse Jet

Mechanical Engineering Papers on Pulse Jets

Turbocharger Turbo Jet Engine

Video of The Jet Engine History

Part 2

Jet Engine Plans