An early attempt at a working jet engine.

[erasmusguy]

It still needs a lot of work but the basics are there. The Wheesleys turn the rear most blade which in turn drives the front blade. The Wheesleys also provide some forward thrust.

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Should anyone be interested at having a look or improving the design heres the link for the download http://kerbalx.com/erasmusguy/Tubs-011

[Bubbadevlin]

Wow cool!

Looks great, love all the new prop engines on the forums now

[Rath]

Is the Heaven?

[Spacetraindriver]

A jet powered jet...

[problemecium]

b-but... KSP has jet engines already o_O

Next thing I know someone's going to build a rocket engine out of rocket engines.

[CommanderSpock]

b-but... KSP has jet engines already o_O

Next thing I know someone's going to build a rocket engine out of rocket engines.

I wanna try that now....

[sgt_flyer]

Well, the main 'animated' part of a rocket engine is is power pack - it's basically a turbine hooked up to turbopumps to pump all the fuel and oxidizer to the combustion chamber (afterwards, depend on the design - some use multiple powerpacks like the SSME - which runs fuels rich on one and oxidizer rich on the other)

Other thing you could animate might be a gimbal system

[Azimech]

Erasmusguy, I love your turbofan! btw they look nice but you don't need the fuel lines anymore.

Rocket Rocket engine: using Procedural Fairings you can make awesome rocket combustion chambers and nozzles, of gigantic proportions. But you need the mod to let engines fire inside a fairing.

[Gaalidas]

Now someone build a plane that can take off and land using this baby. I'll get the fire extinguisher for the computer you try it on, cause you know it's going to burn.

[RocketBlam]

b-but... KSP has jet engines already o_O

Next thing I know someone's going to build a rocket engine out of rocket engines.

That's crazy... So crazy... It might just work...

[BlueCanary]

So awesome, how much thrust does it put out?

[Redshift OTF]

This is an awesome engine but i think it has one flaw. The blades are angled the wrong way. Any thrust the engine will produce is counter-acted by the blades pushing the engine backwards. I have fiddled with the design and it does work with the blades pitched the other way.

[erasmusguy]

So awesome, how much thrust does it put out?

At the moment its too heavy to really measure but I'm working on a smaller one that gets something in the region of 100 thrust.