On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Thomas Phy wrote: Hi guys, I've been kind of following this thread, and with my not so engineering background, I was thinking (and that's dangerous). Just how much unburned fuel are we pumping overboard? Is there enough to say, shape the exhaust pipe into a nozzle, add an igniter, and have a home boy's jato, on all the time? If so, how much thrust might it produce? Just thinking out loud. TP
Thomas, us poor people that can not afford JATO, use turbos to harness some of the waste energy. It works most of the time. Buly |