How a helicopter engine works?

Answer 1

In a very similar way to ordinary aero engine. There are internal combustion engines which work on the induction, compression, power and exhaust system, linked through a gearbox to a shaft which drives the prop. Or the jet version which works by hot gases turning a turbine, which has a shaft running through the middle, again linked through a gearbox to a shaft which drives the prop. This is called a turboprop.

Answer 2

Helicopter engines basically come in two types - piston engines that work just like other piston engine in cars, trucks and other aircraft. - The bigger helicopter engines are turbines, similar to other jets, but with different blades to produce power instead of jet thrust. Both of these types of helicopter engines are connected to a complex transmission that drives both the rotor and the tail propeller.

Answer 3

There are two kinds of engines in helicopters: reciprocating, and turboshaft.A reciprocating engine is an piston aircraft engine. They are all horizontally-opposed, air-cooled engines that, today, are all made by either Continental or Lycoming. (Given that, the three models of piston helicopters made today have Lycoming engines in them.)

A turboshaft engine is a jet with a difference. At the exit end of a turboshaft, where the hot exhaust gases come out, they put a turbine wheel that's hooked to a driveshaft. The shaft is hooked to the helicopter's transmission, and the transmission to the rotors.

Answer 4

a helicopter has a engine which forces it's propelors to spin which makes the helicopter go in to the air and fly.

Answer 5

It depends on whether it is a piston or jet (turbine) engine.