Test Run of Rolls Royce Artouste APU Engine 

One thing many American dudes and UK blokes can agree on: There’s nothing more (ironically) tranquil and life giving than turning a few wrenches and then proudly firing up whatever loud thing it is you were working on.

Very cool. Here in Detroit,we still like to run our big block and small block V8's on stands in our driveways.Even with open headers we don't wear hearing protection, but running them does help drown out the sound of the gunshots.

Everyone needs one of those in their driveway as a countermeasure for their neighbors barking dogs!

Thank you for giving us all a glimpse of what we never see.

The coolest sound of any turbine engine of any age, era, or purpose is the hairdryer sounding starter spool up followed by the deep subwoofer moan of the turbine being fired.

Perfect, several hundred horse power and 150 decibels to run six bulbs! Oh, and a shitload of fun!

I said, "THERE'S NOTHING QUITE LIKE A QUIET GENERATOR, IS THERE?"

The neighbors are going to love your new emergency generator.

Going to Yellowstone for vacation. This would be nice for powering the camp lights :)

It’s amazing the tolerances involved in engineering something like that. I tinker around with 30-60mm Turbochargers and when you start getting to the RPM’s that this thing is capable of its mind boggling. Your average person doesn’t have a FN clue the skill and intelligence that’s involved creating things of this nature. Love videos like this!

you know it'll be a good video when it starts out with kerosene being dumped into another container with batteries, cables, jet engines, fire extinguishers and other assorted fun stuff strewn about.

Thats one expensive and noisy way to light 6 globes!!

i reckon they should have went the whole hog and connected another 2 bulbs

Good way to not only power the workshop, but warm it up too 😉

Handy for charging your phone in the garden.

The cargo planes I flew in during the Viet Nam war had a monster turbine generator built right into the aircraft. They were C-97 four engine trans oceanic cargo planes, now very obsolete. The turbine was about the size of a VW bug. It SCREAMED from start to shut down at well over 150 decibels at around 15000 RPM. Sometimes it would be run for hours as us mechanics performed various work on the four engines. Each engine had a 28 volt starter that needed to be cranked and cranked. It was a form of torture. My ears rang for hours after the turbine was shut down.

Imagine if Colin Furze got his hands on that!

very cool, always wanted to see what they look like out of the tail end of a plane. Your neighbors must love you lol

Awesome , we all need more neighbors with spare jet engines running in their back yard

Hey Bill, the nieghbors are having their annual family get together today. Let's say you and I get a case of beer and fire up the APU for an hour or two just to keep the dust off the turbine!!

All the heat, power and noise a man needs in his mancave... brilliant thingy..

That start up noise is just amazing

So this is what makes all that bloody noise when you climb into a plane in an airport and the turbines are off!

For a second I thought Inwas smelling the exhaust- then I realized that was just my house’s heater starting up

Next time my neighbour starts hammering sheet metal at 6am I will beat him with this at 2am 😁

My new camping generator. Perfect for those quiet evening's

Nice engine, great crank up! :-) Well done!

Audible "burp" at 0:25. Evidence that drinking has been going on.

I've finally found a suitable motor for my go cart

Nice work! love that sound!!!

Awesomeness! Our ranch’s backup generator is a micro turbine by Capstone. It also produces heat on top of the electricity. It’ll run on peanut oil, natural gas, kerosene. It’s pretty cool. Just changed the oil last month. It’s like $340 for a 5 gallon bucket so not too bad.

The best and most efficient way to energise six light bulbs!!!! Go for guys! 😃

i love how theres a jet engine at like 2,000,000 rpms and they're just like "yep that's the choke"

Sounds so cool. Just like the turbinator running on the salt

I love that sound when the fuel gets injected. Its just, satifying

You got to have hobbies to keep your mind sharp and to stay away from the wife

Very nice turbine saw one mounted to a Dixie chopper lawn mower at Daytona bike week a few years back sounds awesome

That's a very sexy space heater! 👍😎

Grew up near an RAF base during the Cold War. Skies were always dark with Hercules exercising overhead but we'd get at least a couple of VC10's a week - ah, jet sound nostalgia!

1:16 "Its working! its working!", Anakin

Would love to have this guy as a neighbour 😂

We had a Rolls Royce Artouste APU engine on the Sultan's VC10 in the 70s - not that I ever worked on it. But years earlier I had worked on Alouette IIs with Turbomeca Artouste engines. I have only just realised the 'French Connection.'

Interesting fact. If you hold the plastic container sideways while pouring, you minimise the "glug" effect.

MEN: "Wow, so cool, I could watch all day!" WOMEN: "What does it do? Is that it?"

The last time I heard one of these Artoustes was in the RAF. We had the Artouste in the wonderful Victor B1/K1 aircraft that I worked on all those years ago.

Light bulbs? Man strap that beast to something and make it go! Nice video, thanks for sharing.

Kudos chaps this is one hella way to spend your day cheers

This is solid gold right here. I so get this.

Why don't you ever see two ladies hanging out next to the garage firing up a Rolls Royce Artouste APU engine? Dudes rock.

Sounds like a Alouette starting love that centrifugal compressor whine

Pretty sure these powered the DH Trident airliners APU. Great to see and hear it.

Wuau hermano esto es increíble! gracias por compartir, debe generar mucha electricidad

That's one badass emergency power generator!

I was in tears at the 00:25 burp, filling the liquid fuel tank, and the hand dryer comment. Thank You! ROFLMMFAO. ps: Good turbojet video.

I hated working around these things. When I would pull into the parking lot and see the tail of the aircraft sticking outside of the hanger I knew that I was going to have to hear it all day long. It's a super high pitch, loud noise that consumes almost every bit of your mind, even with ear plugs in and ear muffs over the ears. I don't miss it.

Illuminating indeed

I was a ground equipment repairman in air force. Dash 60 apu were noisy but great piece of equipment.

Seeing men tinkering around with toys like these out of their garage. No matter dull and boring stuff - is happening in your own life, makes being alive well worth it! ,,,, Seeing - What is going to happen next?

As the RR/Turbomeca Artouste it was also used as a helicopter and fixed wing motor.

Those were used on military VC10s and in the beginning they had a habit of blowing up. Originally a Turbomeca Artouste then a Bristol Siddeley Artouste. I understand that ZD241 has acquired a refurbished Artouste.

The air conditioning bleed ports are super cool, are they variable flow or just open/closed? It would make a serious hand drier ;-)

Insanely sweet

Is that not one of the most gorgeous sounds you'll ever hear...? There they stand with their ear muffs, here i sit with headphones turning the volume up!

What are the amps and volts produced by the APU? I know most aircraft operate at 400 Hz so as to keep filtering equipment as small as possible.

HAhaha thank you so much for doing exactly what I was wanting to see. What a beautiful little engine!

Fitted to the Vulcan and the Victor V bombers...I have one under canvas at my house..keep meaning to get it running but don't have the time.. unfortunately.. would be grateful for details of your wiring set up.. should speed things up... Regards..

That's no Clarke's space heater, nicely done that man

YOU GUYS ROCK. RESPECT MUCH.

Awesome Video

Conheço turbomotor artouste IIIB que em regime de trabalho roda a 33500 RPM. Bons tempos. Já lá vão cinquenta anos.

Here in SF, CA we're waiting for the Big One. I can see this would be great for power loss!! The neighborhood would be in such awe; turn all the house lights on and impress (depress??) them with the power racket. Cool. We're near Concord Buchannan Field, so we're just emulating an idling Citation jet!

Really really nice. Same apu as VC10 tanker as I recall.

My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2AM. 2AM! Luckily I was awake, playing my bagpipe.

I was waiting for it to launch itself back into the shed

VERY COOL. I’m pretty sure when people speak of “turbine generated electricity” and it’s efficiency, this is not the turbine they are talking about though 😄

That's one way to heat your garage :D

The lovely aroma of burning Jet A1 is pleasantly intoxicating. Aladdin Pink works just as well. Shame it can't be shared via you tube.

Bloody brilliant!

Know what series of Artouste this is? The engine was developed by Turbomeca and made by several manufacturers, the most notable being Blackburn.

Wow lot of danger but you managed to run it full power.

Hey! Awesome video! What components would I need to get one of these running? I have a Boeing 737 APU that is in great condition and I would like to get it to run on its engine stand. It has its wiring harness and cannon plugs. Any help would be greatly appreciated! It is a GTCP85-129H. Thank you and keep the videos coming!

That funnel was kickin his ass...

I love that spool up sound

Whizz up a jet engine in your driveway , what an ideal Sunday morning

Also, local power company in Indianapolis has converted some of their generation units to (natural) gas turbine, some combined cycle. Wonder if they sound like this if they're running them? I would assume so...

The sound of a gas turbine spooling up or of an idling diesel-electric locomotive is like music to my ears.

It'll do as a nice quiet backup generator for when you get the midnight power cuts!

Now that's an expensive way to light up 6 lights

Did years on Alouette 111 sounds nostalgic,the whine of a centrifugal compressor nice wet start.A starter generator .in front.

not sure how u managed to get a full apu assembly. but thats pretty sweet. i mean the gene and everything... nice

That's some hardcore way to light bulbs

I want one mounted in a Prius then drive back and fourth in front of A.O.C.'s home

I wanted to see that pallet fly into the garage

This starts the big boys? Cool

sounded lovely

I see you've gone for one of them super silent generators

Brilliant engine and video. VC-10 is my fave old plane. The intake is different to that on the plane though?

Where do you buy one of these jobbies? I can’t find a “vintage jet engines R us” in the Brisbane phone book.

I hope those were LED bulbs! Bloody ozone layer has been through enough.

Spilling more jet fuel than getting in the jerry can...