Any Older Jet Engines Still Airborne?

[Bonkey]

Are any of the early generation jet engines still flying on anything? So am thinking Olympus, Conway or Spey?

Presumably the last Olympus powered plane was the historic Vulcan and Conway would have been the RAF VC10s....both types now grounded in the last 3 years. But any Spey powered frames still flying...either civil or military?

[treadigraph]

Still some Gulfstream IIs and IIIs flying I believe.

[Rocket Pants]

The Italian/Brazilian AMX is powered by the Spey if I remember rightly?

[BEagle]

Spey? Pah - a youngster! Martin-Baker's 2 Meteors Mk7/8 are still flying, powered by a brace each of RR Derwents!

[Rocket Pants]

How about the Chinese Xian JH7 - it uses a licence built RR Spey? Is there an airworthy BAC111 or F28 anywhere? Plenty of 1950's British "warbirds" still flying too.

[Fareastdriver]

The Puma 330 helicopter is still flying in commercial service. The Turmo engines that powers that was originally designed to power French express locomotives in the fifties.

[DaveReidUK]

The DH Goblin, first run in 1942 (a year before the Derwent), is still flying on a handful of airworthy Vampires.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

In New Zealand, two Vampires are flying with DH Goblin engines, as well as a Venom with a DH Ghost engine.

[India Four Two]

It's interesting that the Venom and Vampire have engines made by the airframe manufacturer. Are there any other manufacturers who produced engines?

[rog747]

JT's 707-138B with JT3B's may do one more flight to a museum

Meridiana still use MD80s' with JT8's and a couple of old baby dc9's still fly in East Africa

[Liffy 1M]

Two BAC 1-11s are still flying as testbeds.

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[rotorfossil]

Turbomeca engines in Gazelles and Lamas are pretty elderly turboshaft technology also Rolls Royce (originally Blackburn) engines in Scouts/Wasps still flying.

[Heathrow Harry]

F-28's used the Spey and they're still around

[Bonkey]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

It's interesting that the Venom and Vampire have engines made by the airframe manufacturer. Are there any other manufacturers who produced engines?

Bristol were an airframer and originally made the Olympus and Pegasus (OK, Bristol-Siddeley) - but not sure either of these flew in any of their own aircraft.

[76fan]

Airframe and engines ?

de Havilland ..... airframes, engines, propellers, and the Blue Streak rocket ....

[Allan Lupton]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

It's interesting that the Venom and Vampire have engines made by the airframe manufacturer. Are there any other manufacturers who produced engines?

Bristol is the other obvious producer of both airframes and engines in the UK and one could list Junkers in Germany, Fiat in Italy and Wright and Curtiss in the USofA

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by Bonkey

Bristol were an airframer and originally made the Olympus and Pegasus (OK, Bristol-Siddeley) - but not sure either of these flew in any of their own aircraft.

Indeed not, but now that the thread seems to have drifted into turboshafts and turboprops, Bristol's Proteus certainly did power a Bristol aircraft.

[Wander00]

Must be some Avons flying in Hunters

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Originally Posted by India Four Two

It's interesting that the Venom and Vampire have engines made by the airframe manufacturer. Are there any other manufacturers who produced engines?

Bristol produced both airframes and engines.

For example, the Bristol B.170 Freighter powered by Bristol Hercules engines.

[thetimesreader84]

C130 (not -J) uses the Allison engine, dates back to the 50s.

I heard the core core of the IAE v2500 is the same as a JT-8, if that counts?

and not airborne, but a lot of the Jets you are asking about (Conway, Olympus) are still used in marine / ground applications, for power generation or marine propulsion.