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Adam Frisch

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Vacuum?
« on: November 14, 2016, 02:50:56 pm »
This might sound stupid - but do the turbines have vacuum/air pumps or do the run instruments with bleed air?
Slumming it in the turboprop world - so you don't have to.

Steve binnette

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Re: Vacuum?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2016, 11:28:13 pm »
No vacuum pump, they use bleed air through a regulator.  It's for boots, door seal, and instruments.