The Petrolhead Corner – Turbine Power, Swapping Pistons for Fans and Blades, Part 1

A while ago I featured the Howmet TX in an episode of The Petrolhead Corner. The Howmet TX is a turbine-powered Le Mans prototype from the 1970s, which featured a gas turbine engine taken from a helicopter. A relatively simple-looking machine with quite a bit of strange technology underneath its swooping body, I knew this wasn’t […]

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