Original Turbomeca Palouste turbo compressor

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Blackburn - Turbomeca engine potted history links.
The turbomeca engine history including the origins of the
engines discussed here will be added as soon as i have finished compling it

The Following engine means a great deal to me. It was the first engine that I ever owned and it arrived incomplete in several boxes. Over the course of a year and without manuals and never having touched a gas turbine before I got it back together and running. I later sold it to purchase the next engine (Apprentice wages being what they were) and it went to a college. The college took a perfectly good engine and stripped it with chisels and hacksaws and inaccurately aimed big big hammers. A very nice man in the college eventually took pity on the poor thing and very kindly donated what was left of it back to me. It arrived in worse condition than when I had first clapped eyes on her with quite a bit missing. When I am in the UK which is quite rarely now I am getting her stripped right down and she will be fully re worked and put back into a perfect, factory fresh and operational condition.

As you can see she bears no resemblance to the Blackburn/Rolls Royce Palouste shown on the other Palouste page. This was the original Palouste from which the license built Anglicized versions were built. More on the development of this family of engine can be found within the potted history links above.

This configuration of Plaouste engine was license built in the US by continental and called the 140.
It was left largely un altered.

A modified version of this engine was cleared for flight and installed into the Djin helicopter.
The Blackburn / Rolls Paloustes never flew other than in external pods

This engine has now had the air intake/oil tank and the accessory drive coupling pilfered to enable
the Palas to be completed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turbomeca
Marbore II

Turbomeca
Palas

Original Turbomeca Palouste

Rolls-Royce
/Blackburn
Palouste

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