- Fri Oct 19, 2012 5:17 pm
#19002
I lifted this extract from Wikipedia re}--- water injection in gas turbines and it explains what is happening.----------- "The use of water injection in turbine engines has been limited, again, mostly to military aircraft. Many pictures are available of Boeing B-52 takeoffs which clearly show the black smoke emitted by turbine engines running with water injection. For early B-52s, water injection was seen as a vital part of take-off procedures. For later versions of the B-52 as well as later turbine-powered bombers, the problem of taking off heavily loaded from short runways was solved by the availability of more powerful engines that had not been available previously." -------------------- Odd,you'd have thought that it would be a white smoke as per a water-leaking head gasket on a water-cooled piston engine ??
