continues to progress on assembly of the M1400 Blue Devil 2 at airship maker TCOM‘s hangar in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
The latest pictures show mounting of the engines. The VTOL engines are Honeywell TPE331-12 vectorable turboprops driving MT MTV-27 props. To provide a sense of scale, the VTOL prop is approximately 12-feet in diameter.
This new picture show testing of the latest refinements to the main engine belt transmission:
Source: The EdgeFighter
I don’t see a Honeywell. I see a Thielert Diesel engine.
Interesting. An earlier release mentioned 310 HP Thielert engines, but this information was taken from the MAV6 blog:
http://edgefighter.com/2012/03/24/update-m1400-airship-vtol-engines-installed/
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