Random Air Turbine (RAT)

[Flyer94]

Hi pilots,
is someone out there who has a link to a website showing pictures or drawings of the RAT?
THX in advance!

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Fly save and always blue skies!

[Le Pen]

Oh for gods sake..................Its RAM, not random............Who lets these people in????????

Love

Le Pen

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[HugMonster]

Random - hmmmm - it does paint a picture, though, doesn't it?

[overfly]

www.ramgen.com

[HugMonster]

Ummmm - that's not a RAT - that's a gas turbine engine.

[overfly]

Umm- well the manufacturer calls it a Ramjet engine and appeared to me to differentiate it from a gas-turbine engine. So if you are right, tell them as well as us !!!

[Checkboard]

The Ram Air Turbine is a airstream driven generator that drops from the bottom of an Airbus fuselage to provide emergency power in the event of both engine driven generators failing.

[forget]

http://www.hamiltonsundstrandcorp.co...a/spacesea.htm

Airbus? They used to drop(randomly)from the bottoms of Vulcans as well.

[old-timer]

B757 & 767 use then too,
jolly useful they are too..
check out the canadian incident when
a 767 ran out of fuel,
the RAT provides essential hydraulic
pressure to maitain flight control
authority, which is really rather a nice thing to have when the donkeys have just quit
& the hyd' press' is falling !!!

thumbs up for RATS I say...



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todays thought...
who tested Orville &
Wilbur Wright for their type rating & base checks ??? *****

[Professor Longhair]

B777 RAT provides hydraulics AND electrics.

Always nice to have a RAT behind you when it goes quiet.....

[capt waffoo]

Love the Random bit!

Must come from the same silly-season stable as the leader in today's Times which droned on knowledgeably about the dangers of (nuclear) "Neutrally Assured Destruction"!

There's nothing like getting the terminology right, is there?

[Flyer94]

Hi pilots,
ooooooopppppsssssss..... sorry sorry sorry for typing down this complete nonsens of the "Random" turbine....
I donīt no where I was with my thoughts when I wrote that down.
Nice to c u r more concentrated than me at the moment.


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