{"id":3211,"date":"2016-10-24T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2016-10-24T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:49:23","slug":"kulczyks-ducted-fan-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2016\/10\/24\/kulczyks-ducted-fan-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulczyk’s Ducted Fan Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wallace A. \u201cMike\u201d Kulczyk enjoyed the challenges of building and flying scale model jets.\u00a0 In the mid-to-late 1960s the biggest challenge involved was simulating the jet engine with ducted fan systems.\u00a0 Before these systems were commercially available many modelers, including Mike, pioneered \u201cfans in a can.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ducted fan motors built by Lt. Col. Wallace “Mike” Kulczyk, National Model Aviation Museum Permanent Collection, 2014.40.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ducted fan systems placed glow engines inside a close-fitting shroud, often made of a tin food can, and used multi-bladed fans to accelerate air through a nozzle \u2013 basically an air pump.\u00a0 Figuring out the size, angle of blades and materials to build the units required research and ingenuity.\u00a0 Mike shared his knowledge in an article published in American Aircraft Modeler<\/em>, February 1971 where he explained the two methods of constructing the multi-bladed fans, as well as the importance of finding the right size container (his recommendation was to visit the grocery store with a ruler).<\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s hard work certainly paid off, if these pictures of his CL F-100 Super Sabre are anything to go by.<\/p>\n

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A close-up of the ducted fan unit installed in an F-100 model jet built by Wallace “Mike” Kulczyk.\u00a0 Picture provided In Memory of Lt. Col. Wallace \u201cMike\u201d Kulczyk by his children. 2014.40.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Friends and family watch as Mike works on his ducted fan installed in his F-100 CL model in 1966. Photo shared courtesy of the children of Lt. Col. Wallace \u201cMike\u201d Kulczyk, 2014.40.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike Kulczyk flies one of his F-100 ducted fan powered CL model, March 1966. Photo shared courtesy of the children of Lt. Col. Wallace \u201cMike\u201d Kulczyk, 2014.40.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interested in making your own fan in a can?\u00a0 This drawing explains the main points, and feel free to email Maria at mariav@modelaircraft.org to request a copy of his 1971 article (article reprints are $4.00.)\u00a0 There\u2019s also several books about ducted fan units and model jets in the museum\u2019s library.<\/p>\n

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Kulczyk, Wallace A. Drawing, \u201cDucted Fan \u2018Power-Pak.\u2019\u201d American Aircraft Modeler<\/em>, February 1971, pg. 42. National Model Aviation Museum Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Five of Mike\u2019s ducted fan units are in the museum\u2019s collection, as well as several of his flow straighteners and impellers.\u00a0 The items were donated by Richard Maus, In Memory of Lt. Col. Wallace “Mike” Kulczyk and In Memory of Lt. Col. Wallace \u201cMike\u201d Kulczyk by his children.<\/p>\n

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The full ducted fan units, as well as some individual fan rotors and stator extensions donated to the museum by Richard Maus, In Memory of Lt. Col. Wallace “Mike” Kulczyk and In Memory of Lt. Col. Wallace \u201cMike\u201d Kulczyk by his children. National Model Aviation Museum Permanent Collection, 2014.31 and 2014.40.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Wallace A. \u201cMike\u201d Kulczyk enjoyed the challenges of building and flying scale model jets.\u00a0 In the mid-to-late 1960s the biggest challenge involved was simulating the jet engine with ducted fan systems.\u00a0 Before these systems were commercially available many modelers, including Mike, pioneered \u201cfans in a can.\u201d Ducted fan systems placed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47],"tags":[56,161],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engines","category-museum","tag-artifact","tag-ducted-fan-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}