De Havilland Goblin

Please don’t be shy with pictures or even video if possible!

Thanks to everyone who has offered help, we look forward to getting this project going! The more I delve into this the more I would like to try and assemble as much of a vampire as possible!
Matt

Drop me a PM 😉

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I’ve helped a friend of mine run an old Rover turbine a few times, EX-RN IIRC designed for firefighting duties ? , crank it up, add the hose, hang said hose over the side into water and fight fire with gallons of sea water.

Loud and fun and not that expensive to run either…..

The Rover gas turbine was in fact used as a ‘two man Portable ‘ fire pump but as anyone who has operated this beast will know they were anything but. It may be of interest but the Rover gas turbine was used on the Navy’s 50 Ton Wellington class BH7 hovercraft as an APU and for electrical generation. They carried two for this purpose. The main engine was a marine Proteus.

Jet engines in the back yard?

Well day-um.

Most Male thing I do is take out the garbage.

“Muck respek’, booyakasha.”

Ahh yes the Hand cranked Rover 1s, similar to the Vulcan APU rather a strange looking thing! Little turbines are great fun to run if done properly but dangerous when not sone so!

and loud ! – we had it in a purpose built rig/carry frame, hardest part was stopping people looking inside too closely!

Ahh yes the Hand cranked Rover 1s, similar to the Vulcan APU rather a strange looking thing! Little turbines are great fun to run if done properly but dangerous when not sone so!

. My Brother and I run a few Gas turbines as a hobby

I’ve helped a friend of mine run an old Rover turbine a few times, EX-RN IIRC designed for firefighting duties ? , crank it up, add the hose, hang said hose over the side into water and fight fire with gallons of sea water.

Loud and fun and not that expensive to run either…..

Thanks for all the info people,
I did not win the engine on ebay but have another one that is in a more complete condition also cost a bit more! Bruce I will PM you. The thing I have been most amazed with is watching videos of the goblin starting it seems to have a go and then just when you think its going to continue accelerating it happily settles down to idle! i’m looking forwards to running a historic engine!
Matt

Small, polite, friendly suggestion (those who know me will understand): de Havilland is always written with a lower-case ‘de’.

That’s all
Tootle pip!
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‘de Havilland’, yes, but I am sure it is ‘DH’ and not ‘dH’. But point taken. You are sooooooooo right.

Ah DH! or Ah dH! as dear Uncle Roger used to say in the good old days of Flight International.

Yours duly chastised, 🙁

Ah, so you won that one! I had an aeroplane for it, but no matter!

I will scan the de Havilland course notes for you, as that gives a good overview on the operating of the engine.

When you collect it, you might want to come for a rummage in Bruce’s emporium of all things aeroplane – I will have most of the bits you need to make it work!

Bruce

Small, polite, friendly suggestion (those who know me will understand): de Havilland is always written with a lower-case ‘de’.

That’s all
Tootle pip!
🙂

Hi Matt. From past experience I can tell you that the DH Goblin was / is used to power the DH Vampire T11 and other versions I dare say. Also be very careful of the air intake noise levels – it is the only thing that has rendered me deaf for about 20 minutes. That was in the days before ear defenders were the norm. Another thing that I remember was that the the engine starter was a ‘two stage starter’, in other words the starter motor initially was connected via an in-line resistor which, after a given time, came out of circuit allowing full battery voltage to the starter motor. I may even have some details filed away somewhere. Happy running! 🙂