Very nice item but….is it actually a bargain as suggested?
By: g-anyb - 14th October 2012 at 09:42
Yes, as engine number 1, it is a test bed example only. Never flown.
Old and interesting – yes!
Old and valuable – not for me!
Bruce
And it’s had two rebuilds after catastrophic failures… !!
By: Bruce - 14th October 2012 at 09:28
Yes, as engine number 1, it is a test bed example only. Never flown.
Old and interesting – yes!
Old and valuable – not for me!
Bruce
By: FMK.6JOHN - 14th October 2012 at 07:32
This is a test bed engine and not an actual flown example?, the running times recorded in the history supplied by DB far exceed the total flight time of the TSR-2 test programme prior to cancellation.
John.
By: canadair - 14th October 2012 at 06:51
a bargain?
well I guess to some,
But in reality what use is it?
I don`t think it will ever be used as an actual powerplant, and if all one wants to do is run a jet engine in the back yard there are plenty available at a fraction of the cost that will just as easily scare the hell out of the operator.
Note the RB 211 guys,
I can think of plenty of other uses for 165K but then again, the old adage
one mans junk, another mans treasure,
or was it a fool and his money……
By: |RLWP - 14th October 2012 at 00:05
Yes it was & when a friend viewed it afew years ago, he said it wouldn’t take much to get it running. Would love to mount it on a boat :diablo:
Or as a brilliant barbeque
Richard
By: Black Knight - 13th October 2012 at 22:34
Yes it was & when a friend viewed it afew years ago, he said it wouldn’t take much to get it running. Would love to mount it on a boat :diablo:
By: Miggers - 13th October 2012 at 22:08
Wasn’t it on ebay for a million quid or something the first time?
Could’ve been,I remember it was a lot more than the current asking price
for the thing.
By: Fouga23 - 13th October 2012 at 21:55
Wasn’t it on ebay for a million quid or something the first time?
By: Miggers - 13th October 2012 at 21:27
I’m sure this one has been on the ‘Bay for sale before at about 200k IIRC.
Data Plate Reads:
Bristol Siddeley Olympus
Mk: OL320
SERIAL: OL2201 (Olympus type 22 number 01)
AM Number: A666160
Someone said it wouldn’t be ground runnable though unless it had been sleeved(?)
Something to do with the resonance vibration(?)that Olympii were prone too(?)
By: Lazy8 - 13th October 2012 at 20:09
Many years ago (for a model project which came to naught) I did a very detailed examination of the Science Museum’s TSR.2 Olympus, which I think was from a development batch. I have no idea where the photos I took then have got to, and I’m not in a position to go check the real thing. However, I have a strong memory that the data plate on that engine read OL320X, because it was still experimental. Wouldn’t that apply to the very first one too?
By: adrian_gray - 13th October 2012 at 19:34
Dunno, but if Damien Burke has supplied some of the information you could always ask him – he certainly used to post here, though try as I might I can’t remember under what name.
Adrian
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