[ He looked up at the frame as the doors slid open, pouting his lips with a look that was both impressed and appreciative for so small a thing(which, in the context of this world, was not small at all). It was a small creature comfort for him, someone so used to the sterile automation of ShinRa Headquarters.
But Cid's voice carried, and Reno followed it easily. He was quick to set up, mindful not to disrupt whatever was going on atop Cid's desk prior with the splay of a large schematic, and smaller packets of accompanying notes.
Reno wasn't one to half-ass anything, and while his memory was sharp and his hands knew the parts, there were blanks and more vaguely drawn parts, showing where his limitations were in understanding and memory. He couldn't be wholly blamed, not with something this intricate, but it wouldn't make anything any easier. ]
This model's specifically for helicopters. We have others, but planes ain't my thing.
[ He reached, opening one of the little packets of paper to flip through. On the papers were more crude drawings of his preferred helicopter model--the photos in his phone were used as reference, no doubt. But it was slid away for the moment. ]
This is designed to keep hot air moving where it needs to go to turn the turbines here--and all of this is cause it's gotta turn the gearshaft sideways to make the propellers rotate, compared to piston motors that use an up-down motion.
[ He pointed. ]
Hot air goes in here from the combustion chamber. This shit gets hot enough to warp the rest of these parts that gotta fit together exactly, and there's blades that move independently in the turbines, so there's this empty air chamber here for insulation. Hot air moves the turbines, there's counter turbines for stability to keep the engine from ripping itself apart..
And it aaaall moves down the compressor to... here. Where you get the gearshaft that changes the axis, and gives you rotation for these. The rotors.
[ Which! As he said, he went back to the drawings of a helicopter, and pointed to the blades up top, and on the tail. ]
I'm more used to diagnosing and repairing the parts, so it's more muscle memory than technical memory, but lucky I'm part of the intel department back home, so my memory's a little better than most.
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But Cid's voice carried, and Reno followed it easily. He was quick to set up, mindful not to disrupt whatever was going on atop Cid's desk prior with the splay of a large schematic, and smaller packets of accompanying notes.
Reno wasn't one to half-ass anything, and while his memory was sharp and his hands knew the parts, there were blanks and more vaguely drawn parts, showing where his limitations were in understanding and memory. He couldn't be wholly blamed, not with something this intricate, but it wouldn't make anything any easier. ]
This model's specifically for helicopters. We have others, but planes ain't my thing.
[ He reached, opening one of the little packets of paper to flip through. On the papers were more crude drawings of his preferred helicopter model--the photos in his phone were used as reference, no doubt. But it was slid away for the moment. ]
This is designed to keep hot air moving where it needs to go to turn the turbines here--and all of this is cause it's gotta turn the gearshaft sideways to make the propellers rotate, compared to piston motors that use an up-down motion.
[ He pointed. ]
Hot air goes in here from the combustion chamber. This shit gets hot enough to warp the rest of these parts that gotta fit together exactly, and there's blades that move independently in the turbines, so there's this empty air chamber here for insulation. Hot air moves the turbines, there's counter turbines for stability to keep the engine from ripping itself apart..
And it aaaall moves down the compressor to... here. Where you get the gearshaft that changes the axis, and gives you rotation for these. The rotors.
[ Which! As he said, he went back to the drawings of a helicopter, and pointed to the blades up top, and on the tail. ]
I'm more used to diagnosing and repairing the parts, so it's more muscle memory than technical memory, but lucky I'm part of the intel department back home, so my memory's a little better than most.