how to make a plane engine?

Question

please please sombody help me i would like like to know how plane egines are built. iam not asking for indepth eplanitons. just the the basics of the build of it or any thing that could help. thanks.
ps sorry for my spelling

Answer 1

Piston airplane engines are made pretty much the same as automobile engines, while turbine (jet) engines are a bit more complicated...

If you want to know more about aircraft engines, check out this web site...

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Answer 2

You want to make a full-sized engine, to put into a man-lifting aircraft? You'd need a metal foundry, alot of coal or gas to fire it, bulk metal, have to learn how to do sand or lost-wax casting to make the raw engine block, then do the same for the heads, pistons, rods, and other big and small parts. Items like the crankshaft would need to be pressed steel, not just poured, then specially treated to make it non-brittle and somewhat flexible to take the pounding. Not sure how camshafts are made from raw, but I think poured at least, then pressed and heat-treated in oils and agents.

Then , you need BIG honing machines to bore out the cylinders, finish up the mating surfaces on both engine block and heads, and other necessary steps.

On to taping threads into the drilled holes where needed.

THen you need to make all the peripheral devices like water pumps, carburetor, fuel pump, etc. And all that stuff has to be designed to fit the block and heads precisely.

Add gaskets, and finishing parts, and you have an engine.

All fairly simple, but yet complex. Of course, that is for an internal combustion engine for a small plane. Want a Jet engine? It gets more complex due to the critical fit required for precision jet engine parts. And MUCH more expensive.

- The Gremlin Guy -

Answer 3

If you're talking about model aircraft, go look at Tower Hobbies or other model RC aircraft websites.

If you're talking about real airplanes, but the small ones that carry 1-6 people, go join the EAA - see the website below to find a chapter in your area.

If you're talking jets, just search for "jet engine".

Answer 4

First you have be a Authorized Manufactor by the FAA, or your dead in the water from the start.
next - $$$$$$$$,a reputation, and a good legal team to fend off all the frivious law suits from people that kill themselves in airplanes..
then, to make the engine, use no new technology, as this increases the cost of certifaction from the FAA. Use a 1940's style, horzitonally opposed NA engine with a carburator.
thats it..

Answer 5

I would love to build my own jet engine, but the hard part is not knowing how to build it. It's having the materials, tools, and accuracy to build such a precision machine.