The Turbomeca Piméné was a small French
turbojet
The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine has an air inlet which includes inlet guide vanes, a compressor, a combustion chamber, and ...
engine produced by
Turbomeca in the early 1950s.
[Gunston 1989, p. 170.]
First shown at the 1949
Paris Air Show
The Paris Air Show (, ''Salon du Bourget'') is a trade fair and air show held in odd years at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in France. Organized by the French aerospace industry's primary representative body, the ''Groupement des industries frança ...
this engine passed official type tests in 1950.
[''Flight'' - Type test of the Turbomeca Piméné](_blank)
www.flightglobal.com Retrieved: 14 June 2012 A similar, but not directly related, smaller
turboshaft
A turboshaft engine is a form of gas turbine that is optimized to produce shaft horsepower rather than jet thrust. In concept, turboshaft engines are very similar to turbojets, with additional turbine expansion to extract heat energy from the ex ...
, known as the Turbomeca Orédon, drove an
alternator
An alternator (or synchronous generator) is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. For reasons of cost and simplicity, most alternators use a rotating magnetic field wit ...
and was used as an aircraft
auxiliary power unit
An auxiliary power unit (APU) is a device on a vehicle that provides energy for functions other than propulsion. They are commonly found on large aircraft and naval ships as well as some large land vehicles. Aircraft APUs generally produce 115&n ...
,
Variants
;TR-011: small turbojet engine, precursor to the
Orédon APU.
;Piméné:enlarged higher mass flow development of the TR-011 / Orédon.
Applications
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EFW N-20
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Fouga CM.8
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Fouga CM.101R
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Fouga CM.88 Gemeaux
Specifications
See also
References
;Notes
;Bibliography
* Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
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External links
Minijets website
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Pimene
1940s turbojet engines
Mixed-compressor gas turbines