What Myth would you want to see busted?

how you think that an engine that is rotating has no effect in the internals boggles my mind.

let's talk about piston engines. So you rotate the engine around the propshaft. So what happens to the pistons? That's right they keep firing and provide energy and rotation to the propshaft, the propshaft rotates like normal. The bearing between propshaft and engine casing experience twice the speed.

How does spinning an engine stop the pistons, this is what you are saying is happening, even though you don't realise that is what you are saying.
 
Digging a hole, I'm really not. You are as blind as the people who think a plane does not take of on a runway. A twisted logic though not enough knowledge. Yours is the same, you believe you are right, but you really aren't.

You dont seem to be reading my posts properly. I dont believe the plane doesn't take off.

Again you need to look at where the forces are directly linked.
Cars tyres rotate, a conveyer belt moves and is in direct contact with tyres. Therefore forces are directly link, they cancel each other out and car stays stationery.

On a plane the force comes through the engine and into the prop, which moves air and pulls plane forward, the conveyor belt is in contact with the tyres. No directl link between forces. Plane moves forward and takes off. Only real difference is wheels move twice as fast.

As I said I never said the plane deosn't take off. There is a link between the forces though - friction in the wheel bearings. See below.

On to helicopter. Turntable is linked to helicopter boady. Engine internals can still operate and connected to blades. No dirt link between forces. Blades can still spin.

I dont know why, but you seem to keep suggesting that the rotating part of an engine/motor (the rotor/output shaft/crankshaft - call it what you want) can go at any speed relative to the non-rotating part (stator/case/block - call it what you want). You seem to be suggesting this relationship is entirely irellevant - that my car engine can do 6000rpm (which is crankshaft relative to block, I hope you understand), but that if I spin my whole car in the opposite direction to the engine rotation (and hence spin the engine block) my engine can do 16000rpm, 60000rpm, 1000000rpm - doesn't matter - whatever speed I spin my car, the engine crankshaft will still be doing 6000rpm relative to the ground. Can't you see that's ridiculous? So if the speed of the helicoptor engine has a limit (which means the speed of the blades relative to the heli body has a limit) and the engine is operating at that limit, then if you rotate the helicoptor body (hence the engine block/case) the same speed in the opposite direction, then the speed of the blades with respect to the ground is 0. How can you not see that????

What is 1000rpm anticlockwise + 1000rpm clockwise?

Yes, 0!!

You have yet to answer my post #69. If you answered those questions - went through that thought process, you might understand what I and others are saying.


For the record:

The helicoptor takes off! (if you are happy that the engine can happily run at double it's rated speed and therefore run at normal speed wrt the ground and produce lift, the heli doesn't fall apart etc etc).

or...

The helicoptor doesn't take off! (if you say the engine has a fixed rpm limit and you run it at that max rpm and spin the helicoptor the other way at the same rpm, in which case the blades are stationary wrt ground so dont produce lift).


The plane takes off! (if you consider rolling resistance of the tyres and friction in the wheel bearings negligable. Then the engines thrust just powers the plane along and it takes off with it's wheels spinning very fast)

or...

The plane doesn't take off! (if you include friction in the wheel bearings resulting in drag on the plane, and allow the conveyor belt to spin so fast that drag from friction in the wheel bearings is enough to overcome the thrust of the engines. An equally 'correct' answer just requiring more impossible super-materials)
 
I dont know why, but you seem to keep suggesting that the rotating part of an engine/motor (the rotor/output shaft/crankshaft - call it what you want) can go at any speed relative to the non-rotating part (stator/case/block - call it what you want).)

yet again, no I'm not saying it can do any sped, it can and still will do the maximum speed. The fact the engine case is being rotated makes no difference. These two things have no direct link for forces to travel through.


Expect you have the equation wrong.
It's not 1000 + 1000

It's turntable spins body of helicopter at 1000rpm the blades are also rotating at 1000 rpm. No link, no equation, there is no adding or subtracting the two.they are not linked.

Just like a conveyors belt at 100mph, does not make a plane move backwards at 100mph.
 
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That's not the resistance I'm talking abut, when an engine is off you have a massive amount of resistance which isn't there when it's running,

And lol.

Les go to car.can you push a car with clutch in. Yes you can despite being joined to massive lump of metal. Now pop it in gear. And try pushing it, you won't budge it. Due to the resistance in the engine. You now have to provide not only the nervy to move the crankshafts and pistons, but to also compress the air in the cylinders..

How is that resistance not there when it's running? Where does it go? The moon? Lol.

Lets simplify it even more. Take a standard in-line 4 from a car. Mount it vertically on a turntable with the crankshaft pointing up. Start the engine, lets say it idles at 1000rpm. So the crankshaft is rotating at 1000rpm. Now we set the turntable going in the opposite direction at 1000rpm. In what realm of reality can you state that the crankshaft is not now stationary relative to the ground?
 
yet again, no I'm not saying it can do any sped, it can and still will do the maximum speed. The fact the engine case is being rotated makes no difference. These two things have no direct link for forces to travel through.

except for the camshaft, pistons, and the things that connect those two whos name i cant remember (big ends possibly?)
 
yet again, no I'm not saying it can do any sped, it can and still will do the maximum speed. The fact the engine case is being rotated makes no difference. These two things have no direct link for forces to travel through.

YES! It will still do it's maximum speed! Relative to the casing of the engine, it can't be any other way. What are you measuring the speed relative to? The moons of Ceti-Alpha Six?
 
YES! It will still do it's maximum speed! Relative to the casing of the engine, it can't be any other way. What are you measuring the speed relative to? The moons of Ceti-Alpha Six?

No relative to the pistons. The casing does not provide power, rotation or anything else. It's as it's name suggest a casing. The pistons won't even be rotating in the same direction as the body.
 
yet again, no I'm not saying it can do any sped, it can and still will do the maximum speed. The fact the engine case is being rotated makes no difference. These two things have no direct link for forces to travel through.

AAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHEEEEE yes it does make a difference relative to the ground/earth!!!!

If an engine is running at it's maximum speed of, say 1000rpm (which means the engine output shaft is running at 1000rpm wrt the engine case), ok? Then you rotate the entire engine the opposite way at 1000rpm (which means you are now rotating the engine case at 1000rpm wrt earth - but the relationship between engine case and output shaft is unchanged as above), ok? THEN THE ENGINE OUTPUT SHAFT IS STATIONARY WRT EARTH.

you MUST be able to understand this!!!! It's just adding two opposite direction equal magnitude angular velocities!!! AAARGGHHHHHH.
 
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except for the camshaft, pistons, and the things that connect those two whos name i cant remember (big ends possibly?)

Which aren't directly linked to the casing. Hence the pistons can move up and down and crankshaft can turn, whist the casing stands stationery. Hence there is no direct link. If there was a direct link, when you turned over the engine the casing would rotate, that doesn't happen.
 
AAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHEEEEE yes it does make a difference relative to the ground/earth!!!!

If an engine is running at it's maximum speed of, say 1000rpm (which means the engine output shaft is running at 1000rpm wrt the engine case), ok? Then you rotate the entire engine the opposite way at 1000rpm (which means you are now rotating the engine case at 1000rpm wrt earth - but the relationship between engine case and output shaft is anchanged as above), ok? THEN THE ENGINE OUTPUT SHAFT IS STATIONARY WRT EARTH.

you MUST be able to understand this!!!! It's just adding to opposite direction equal magnitude angular velocities!!! AAARGGHHHHHH.

It isn't, go look at an engine diagram.
 
No relative to the pistons. The casing does not provide power, rotation or anything else. It's as it's name suggest a casing. The pistons won't even be rotating in the same direction as the body.

And are the pistons not guided up and down in a bore in a block which is secured to or indeed a part of the casing?
 
While it's true that turning you crank shaft when the engine is idle will just send the piston througth there motions.

When you engage this doesn't matter as the crank is now attached to the firing chamber by the pressure of the explosion inside.
 
Can we have a show of hands of who is intentionally taking the **** and who is deadly serious? Because I can't tell right now and I probably should be able to, you know, tell.
 
[FnG]magnolia;21282562 said:
Can we have a show of hands of who is intentionally taking the **** and who is deadly serious? Because I can't tell right now and I probably should be able to, you know, tell.

What he said.
 
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