{"id":15,"date":"2012-10-07T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:49:36","slug":"engine-and-fan-frames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Engine and fan frames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/d6b6df4d18a828b64846c3aa3e62913c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-624\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/d6b6df4d18a828b64846c3aa3e62913c-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"d6b6df4d18a828b64846c3aa3e62913c\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/d6b6df4d18a828b64846c3aa3e62913c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/d6b6df4d18a828b64846c3aa3e62913c-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/d6b6df4d18a828b64846c3aa3e62913c.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of my overriding design ideas for Version 2 was that the duct should be clear of obstructions and that the engine was to be as low as possible and out of the way. To achieve this I decided to put it down in the corner of the craft. In order to get it to fit and too make use of standard length drive belts that didn&#8217;t give me much height and so the engine frame couldn&#8217;t be the usual chunky steel affair.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/a8b0c0b3ff33d3cd133b75bb52a1e901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/a8b0c0b3ff33d3cd133b75bb52a1e901-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"a8b0c0b3ff33d3cd133b75bb52a1e901\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/a8b0c0b3ff33d3cd133b75bb52a1e901-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/a8b0c0b3ff33d3cd133b75bb52a1e901-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/a8b0c0b3ff33d3cd133b75bb52a1e901.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Because of this and also because I fancied having a go at it I made the engine frame out of carbon fibre. As you will see, I didn&#8217;t think to take a photo (despite it being a thing of beauty), but I did take one of the mould I made it in.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/9434348ec2baec326d616fb42f536b1e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/9434348ec2baec326d616fb42f536b1e-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"9434348ec2baec326d616fb42f536b1e\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/9434348ec2baec326d616fb42f536b1e-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/9434348ec2baec326d616fb42f536b1e-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/9434348ec2baec326d616fb42f536b1e.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my overriding design ideas for Version 2 was that the duct should be clear of obstructions and that the engine was to be as low as possible and out of the way. To achieve this I decided to put it down in the corner of the craft. In order to get it to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engine and fan frames<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c80-random-orbit-2"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}