This paper discusses the reasons for using aircraft APU’s and why a gas turbine power unit best meets the requirements for aircraft APU’s. This paper also reviews the history of APU’s in the military, commercial and business aircraft markets. A discussion of the various types of gas turbine APU’s is presented and a typical executive APU and secondary power system is described in some detail. Finally, a description of a new small APU, which is currently being certified for small turboprop and jet executive aircraft, is presented,


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    Title :

    Business Aircraft APU’s


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Owen, W. M. (author)

    Conference:

    Turbine Powered Executive Aircraft Meeting ; 1980



    Publication date :

    1980-04-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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