Rolls Royce RB211 Back Yard 747 Jet Engine Run Close Up and Personal

[FloorItDuh]

The fact that you just have a commercial turbine you can run up in your backyard is awesome. You're living my dream.

[vegardpig]

when you just casually have a 747 engine in your backyard

[ericclark]

When you have a property that large, I can understand the need for a leafblower of that magnitude...

[jonathantan]

"Honey, the neighbour is running their vacuum cleaner at full again..."

[gasturbine]

Remember guys this engine is running at Idle, a 747 hardly moves when sat on its wheels at idle. The induced flow in front of the engine only extends a few meters in front of it. Across the face of the air intake there is of course significant induced flow and pressure drop but at idle its unlikely to suck you in but I'm not gonna try it!

[nomad]

"How to get 547 simultaneous noise complaints."

[augustvonmackensen]

Today I tested my Rolls Royce jet engine in my back yard.... How was your day ?

[obsoleteprofessor]

That little engine ain't no 74... Oh.. My bad...

[ridefast]

That is just how it should be - a quiet English engine running quietly in a quiet English country garden, with a few English gentlemen drinking mugs of tea that probably went cold while they were setting up ... thanks for sharing. Great video. Good thing it didn't backfire.

[gasturbine]

This is NOT in the US, we're in the UK and proud of it!

[xinon]

I bet your neighbors love you ;> ;>

[garycard]

Incredibly powerful- just look at the trees swaying in the thrust! Citrus growers could use these to keep their orchards frost-free on those nights when freezes are forecast. The moving, warm air current would prove very effective. But, I imagine what the fuel bill would be like after running one of these throughout the night!

[williamedwards]

A turbine to start a turbine to start a turbine. Love it!

[nickgannon]

bob says "you guys Wana come over after work and have some beers and play with this huge jet engine in my back yard!?"

[Poorschedriver]

this looks amazingly sketchy and I love every minute of it! Crank it up!

[JulianVR]

Camera man....solid balls of steel standing in the death cone like that lol

[co-opfreestyles]

I think we just found chuck Norris' hair drier

[johnsimun]

I want to comment something, but. This guy is legendary. He has an freaking 747 engine that he can just go and start up, just like someone else would do with an Chevy 350, but it’s a jet turbine.

[LJ-gnun]

The RB211 was - is - one of the finest large aircraft engines ever built. I loved flying on the 757 with the RB's because the power to weight ratio was so high. Yes - 757 were overpowered!

[robeddy]

I visited a man many years ago near Valpraiso Indiana that had the original horns that were removed from the QE2 (or possibly QM1...it's been a loooong time). They were MASSIVE. He told us about how he decided to give them a whirl one sunny summer Saturday afternoon. His air compressor provided a fraction of the air requirement to run them but he tried it anyway. He said there were reports of people hearing ship's horns over 20 miles away. THAT would have been almost as cool as a jumbo jet engine running in the back yard!