(12-02-2015, 10:46 PM)desmophile Wrote:

(12-02-2015, 07:08 PM)Alfie Noakes Wrote: Desmophile please check out these guys - Bladon Jets  for possible future powerplants to drive generators. It's run by a very good friend of mine Chris Bladon, his twin brother Paul sadly died a few years ago but Paul spent years finding a way to make the micro turbine parts small enough - it was a manufacturing/design process that the big names in turbine manufacture had given up on. They have been involved in hybrid car prototypes and other applications where the size of the drive motor is the most critical thing.

Thanks Alfie, that's very interesting. Bladon brothers rings a bell, didn't they build some very quick and reliable race engines a few years ago? 

Yes Desmo, their main interest was Aermacchi 250/350 singles to start with then multi-cylinder motors after that, their own bikes were absolute jewels as was the workshop/dyno, both were racers, their original workshop was in Hemel Hempstead then they moved up to a little village on the North Wales border. Chris was the tech designer/drawer/illustrator and Paul the engineer. Paul passed away sadly after he cracked the process of making the very small central turbine/blade unit from one piece of metal rather than components, the company is his ongoing legacy.