The General Electric J79 is an axial-flow turbojet engine built for use in a variety of fighter and bomber aircraft and a supersonic cruise missile. The J79 was produced by General Electric Aircraft Engines in the United States, and under license by several other companies worldwide. Among its major uses was the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, Convair B-58 Hustler, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, North American A-5 Vigilante and IAI Kfir.
General Electric J79
Sectioned compressor stage of a J79.
GE-J79-3 and Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter
J79-15A at the USAF Museum.
An axial compressor is a gas compressor that can continuously pressurize gases. It is a rotating, airfoil-based compressor in which the gas or working fluid principally flows parallel to the axis of rotation, or axially. This differs from other rotating compressors such as centrifugal compressor, axi-centrifugal compressors and mixed-flow compressors where the fluid flow will include a "radial component" through the compressor.
The compressor in a Pratt & Whitney TF30 turbofan engine.
Reasons stating difference in ideal and actual performance curve in an axial compressor
Various points on the performance curve depending upon the flow rates and pressure difference
Low-pressure axial compressor scheme of the Olympus BOl.1 turbojet.
