3D Animation Bliss-Leavitt Mark 7 Torpedo Working Principle
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 7 torpedo was the first of Leavitt’s turbine-driven torpedoes to use the ‘wet heater’ design where water was sprayed into an external combustion chamber (burner) where a fuel (alcohol) was burning in the airstream. Heating the air from the pressure vessel gave significant improvement to a torpedo’s performance. The very hot gasses could, however, cause problems with the...
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