Forgotten aircraft: Heinkel He 162

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  • @DataWaveTaGo
    @DataWaveTaGo 4 роки тому +37

    Here is the impression of the He 162 flown by Captain Eric Brown from "Wings of the Luftwaffe"
    ...the aircraft had excellent directional snaking characteristics making it a good gun platform. From this aspect it was the best jet fighter of it's time, and I was certainly in a position to judge, having flown every jet aircraft then in existence. A check on the rate of roll at 400 mph revealed the highest that I had ever experienced outside of the realm of hydraulically-powered ailerons, and the stick force demanded to produce these exhilarating gyrations was delightfully light. Leveling off at 12,000 feet I settled down to another spell of the pleasures of the phenomenal roll rate of this delightful little aeroplane ... I had never met better flying controls ... Even if somewhat underpowered it had a good performance - it could certainly have run rings around the contemporary Meteor. I was to fly the little aeroplane quite frequently.

    • @dalesheen1816
      @dalesheen1816 4 роки тому +5

      Imagine the effect this would have if it came out a few years earlier (after Stalingrad let's say)

    • @thethirdman225
      @thethirdman225 2 роки тому

      @@arshdeepsinghmalhi4554 Nope.

    • @PORRRIDGE_GUN
      @PORRRIDGE_GUN Рік тому +1

      I've read the above several times and all I can say is: Lucky, lucky bastard. A fascinating little aircraft. I suppose it's nippy handling with minimal control input is due to its very streamlined fuselage not at all draggy fuselage. A bit like the performance you might get if you took a sailplane, chopped of half it's wings and stuck a small turbojet on it. Bede BD5J inspiration?

  • @warrensmith2902
    @warrensmith2902 5 років тому +33

    Loved building this model as a kid. It just looks like a fighter.

    • @moltovele9626
      @moltovele9626 3 роки тому

      Looks like a spaceship and I love it!

    • @user-nf1yl1yl9d
      @user-nf1yl1yl9d Рік тому

      Yes as a ten year old kid I built the Lindbergh 1/72nd. Scale kit HE 162 & wondered why would anyone build such a small low cost fighter and now I understand that...."when you ain't got nothing" u get creative 👍

  • @Lockbar
    @Lockbar 5 років тому +13

    WE LOVE YOU HE 162!!!

  • @justinheadley9453
    @justinheadley9453 4 роки тому +4

    For those interested the he 162 was able to get two kills both tempest Vs in May 1945 just before the war ended. One severe loss in action was when two he 162s were scrambled to intercept 8 tempest Vs strafing the airfield. The pilot in the he 162 tried to do an aggressive 360 turn and actually outturnwd the tempest but then the he 162 fell over lost power upside down and the pilot ejected himself at low altitude straight into the ground! Ouch!!!!

  • @laure5333
    @laure5333 5 років тому +45

    Forgotten...?!? By who...?!? Not by aviation aficionados...that's for sure...!!!

    • @CH3TN1K313
      @CH3TN1K313 4 роки тому +1

      110%!

    • @freddyblack804
      @freddyblack804 4 роки тому +1

      It's a testament to, not waste anything & use whatever you have to keep going....

  • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
    @modeljetjuggernaut4864 5 років тому +31

    My favorite 'axis' plane of all time. Such a unique design. Looks like a frog with a jetpack on it's back..

    • @laure5333
      @laure5333 5 років тому +3

      Probably, that's the reason why this plane other name was "Salamander", who knows...?!?

    • @user-do5zk6jh1k
      @user-do5zk6jh1k 5 років тому +1

      To me, it looks like a dolphin.

    • @hajoos.8360
      @hajoos.8360 5 років тому +1

      The sad thing is, that this german technological superiority was one of the major reasons for this war.

    • @rabbani3094
      @rabbani3094 4 роки тому

      Same here I love the design.

    • @Kaizoku_Zoro
      @Kaizoku_Zoro 3 роки тому

      Me 162 is nice. My favorite WWII
      plane is the Me 262.

  • @zorngottes1778
    @zorngottes1778 5 років тому +15

    I allways loved this aircraft. Lets build a new flying one.

  • @dandare6865
    @dandare6865 3 роки тому +3

    Even today it looks modern, and it went from drawing board to plane in 90 days i believe.

  • @mrjockt
    @mrjockt 4 роки тому +5

    Got to study one close up back in the early ‘80s, I was serving in the R.A.F. and the base I was posted to had a small museum section, one of the exhibits was an He-162, I think it eventually ended up in the museum at Cosford.

    • @PORRRIDGE_GUN
      @PORRRIDGE_GUN Рік тому

      St Athan?

    • @mrjockt
      @mrjockt Рік тому

      @@PORRRIDGE_GUN Yes, the base had a small museum back in the seventies and eighties, it was an overspill for Hendon and Cosford.

    • @PORRRIDGE_GUN
      @PORRRIDGE_GUN Рік тому

      I'm pretty sure that Salamander is now at Hendon, because it is the one missing it's ejector seat. I didn't nick it, did you?
      I was a 16 year old air cadet in 1984 and I remember looking at the cockpit instrumentation and thinking the gliders I'd just solo'ed had only slightly less instruments (fuel and engine data being the extra dials)
      The mad nazi plan was Hitler Youth could fly these planes. I think if I'd been a Nazi air cadet, and I've probably been up for it too!
      I loved the ATC and I particularly loved RAF St Athan Camp. Good food, good accommodation and flying and gliding until we were sick of it, and Tenby, The Welsh Ibiza down the road! I remember all the billet blocks had Welsh names too. And Nerys. A 16 yr old blonde pad brat with a lovely arse who I had a knee trembler with round the back of the NAAFI.

    • @mrjockt
      @mrjockt Рік тому

      @@PORRRIDGE_GUN I worked part time on the Museum Flight back in the early eighties, I believe the collection was dispersed to other locations in the early nineties when they announced the closure of St Athan as an Air Force base, it was a unique collection, apart from the 162 they had a two seat Fw-190, a Japanese Ki-46 Dinah recce aircraft and WB188 the prototype Hunter that was later used to break the world air speed record.

  • @Fromard
    @Fromard 4 роки тому +8

    The lesson learned? Never use Elmer's glue on a jet.

    • @PORRRIDGE_GUN
      @PORRRIDGE_GUN Рік тому

      I believe the slave labourer's building them used to piss in the glue pots which meant the glue never properly cured. Also the correct glue was unavailable as the Allies had bombed flat the only factory in Germany still producing it, Tego Film, made by Goldmann AG in 1943. The Heinkel had to use an inferior erzatz replacement. Ironically, the factory was target marked with flares dropped by De Haviland DH98 Mosquitos in one of the first Oboe-equipped blind bombing raids. The Mosquito was also built of plywood and glued together using Aerolite. a chemically similar glue.

  • @coleparker
    @coleparker 4 роки тому +2

    As a kid in the 1960s I had plastic model of this plane. Loved it.

    • @johnearle1
      @johnearle1 4 роки тому +1

      Lindbergh made a 1/72 model. Cost about 5 bucks in the late 70's.

  • @ProjectFlashlight612
    @ProjectFlashlight612 2 роки тому

    Not forgotten. Never forgotten.

  • @CH3TN1K313
    @CH3TN1K313 4 роки тому +1

    If the Henschel HeS 011 & HeS 012 engines hit mass production earlier, this aircraft could have become legendary.

  • @ilsetowler6142
    @ilsetowler6142 2 роки тому

    I have a feeling Aeromodeller magazine published a piece about this plane complete with plan and elevation around 1947.

  • @richhh9000
    @richhh9000 5 років тому +2

    Amazing work on your videos man! Glad I found your channel, can't wait to see what the future holds!

  • @malcolmbrown3532
    @malcolmbrown3532 4 роки тому +2

    As many have already said great video. IMO the only downer is the over powering music, which n places especially towards the end tended to drown out the commentary......

  • @erikliljeberg1796
    @erikliljeberg1796 5 років тому +16

    Forgotten? Nope not ever

  • @f4llen489
    @f4llen489 5 років тому +12

    Great video. One of the few german planes I actually didnt know about, so thank you for this video. Keep it up! :D

    • @shelbyseelbach9568
      @shelbyseelbach9568 5 років тому

      If you don't know about them, how can you say there are few of them. If you don't know about them, There could be hundreds. How would you know? Think about it.

  • @killingfields1424
    @killingfields1424 4 роки тому +1

    Now it turns into a commercial jet aircraft like the Cirrus Vision, and Subsonex. All top mounted single tiny jet engine.

  • @cowboybob7093
    @cowboybob7093 5 років тому +3

    0:30 384th Bomber Group - Grafton Underwood "Keep the Show on the Road"

  • @eduardobaccaroschrepel4035
    @eduardobaccaroschrepel4035 Рік тому +1

    Que tecnologia fantástica dos alemães isso a 80 anos atrás.
    Só perderam a guerra por falta de materiais belicos.
    Por que estavam 10 anos a frente dos aliados

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 5 років тому +2

    Once upon a time (1991) I flew the He-162 Volksjaeger in LucasArts' "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe." As with previous LucasArts releases, "BattleHawks 1942" and "The Battle of Britain," the pixel-based aircraft and tracers left something to be desired. (The "IL-2 Sturmovik" series is many times better in detail and combat flight simulation, by comparison.) As the author has said, this aircraft was "too little, too late."

    • @MrAlumni72
      @MrAlumni72 5 років тому

      I had the Battlehawks and Battle of Britain games, and at the time the graphics were excellent. I never got the SWoL game because it was only issued on CD and I didn't have a CD-ROM at the time.

    • @bradster1708
      @bradster1708 5 років тому

      Aaaah......You bring back some fond memories for me. BOB and SWOTL were two of my favourite games to play, and they also had fantastic manuals, like small books. Graphics were par for the course at that time and very little in the way of visual scenery but they had great gameplay. I would frequently find myself flying the Me262 or the Gotha flying wing and yelling out “Gott Himmel, these Englanders fight like madmen!”
      The He162 must have been in the expansion pack that I didn’t have.
      Ah great times

  • @firestartergold1768
    @firestartergold1768 5 років тому

    I knew about it. Thank your Gajin and WarThunder Dev team!

  • @DK-pb7tr
    @DK-pb7tr Рік тому

    Incredible

  • @tahustvedt
    @tahustvedt 4 роки тому +4

    I designed a 2m long flying model of the He-162. I have videos of it on my channel.

  • @anthonyxuereb792
    @anthonyxuereb792 3 роки тому

    Such a pretty plane and beautiful art work. Glad the Typhoon pilot survived. Pictures showing destroyed German aircraft poses the question, what happened to those incredible engines? How many were secreted away? I'd hate to think they went to scrap.

  • @leechgully
    @leechgully 4 роки тому +1

    Good video. background music was a bit loud.

  • @shawns0762
    @shawns0762 4 роки тому +2

    It was an aerodynamic masterpiece when the prototype did 562 mph it shocked luftwaffe officials and the second generation of 162's would have been dramatically better with swept wings and a v tail plus an engine (heinkel-hirth HS011) with 50% more power.

  • @willmac5642
    @willmac5642 3 роки тому

    Reminds me abit of the A-10

  • @Joshua_23
    @Joshua_23 5 років тому +3

    cool stuff

  • @markwilliams2620
    @markwilliams2620 5 років тому +4

    What happens first. Does your engine burn out or do your wings fall off?
    Also, IIRC the Dornier Pfiel had the first ejection seats.
    Nice video!

    • @mandernachluca3774
      @mandernachluca3774 5 років тому

      Well, since they actually managed to get some reliability out of the Jumo 004, i would say that the wings are the first to come of (well to be specific, they'll come of when you try an overenthusiastic roll maneuver ;D).

    • @modeljetjuggernaut4864
      @modeljetjuggernaut4864 5 років тому +1

      @@mandernachluca3774 looking at some of these aircraft on display now, some had quite a handful of flights which was to say some of the slave labor were being diligent with their job while others were purposely responsible for their crashes due to sabotage.

    • @smidon
      @smidon 5 років тому

      Yes the Do335 had the first fitted ejection seats - but the OP says the first ejection seats in combat. That might be right.

    • @dosgamer74
      @dosgamer74 5 років тому +1

      Actually, the Heinkel He-219 Uhu was first production aircraft to have ejection seats installed from it's introduction (from early1943 onwards) *and* used in combat.
      Going back even further still, we find the He-280 jet prototypes to be the very first pre-production aircraft made anywhere, of any quantity, to be fitted with an ejection seat. Cheers!
      PS: To the Video author: Cool video about an interesting airplane! :)

    • @PlasticGangsta
      @PlasticGangsta 5 років тому

      The Do335 never reached series production so the He162 was the first in service aircraft with an ejection seat. I can't remember exactly which one or ones (it should not be hard to look it up) but I do not think it was even the first development project to include an ejection seat. The Heinkel 219 Uhu springs to mind. Yee Haa

  • @johnearle1
    @johnearle1 4 роки тому +1

    The Heinkel 219 Uhu night fighter had an ejection seat before the Salamander.

  • @stevensimpson6417
    @stevensimpson6417 5 років тому +5

    Designed and built in less than 60 days ... try doing these days.... no way !

    • @warrensmith2902
      @warrensmith2902 5 років тому

      Give that task to Burt Ratain. He'll do it. By the time the DARPA project officer shows up, he'll have a flying prototype in the air.

    • @njsullyalex2744
      @njsullyalex2744 5 років тому +3

      Maybe we should have contracted Heinkel instead of Lockheed to tackle the Joint Strike Fighter Project... 60 days Vs. 10 years!

    • @stevensimpson6417
      @stevensimpson6417 5 років тому

      Maybe your right !

    • @hajoos.8360
      @hajoos.8360 5 років тому

      @@njsullyalex2744 without bucaneered german jet-technology there would be no Lockheed Martin.

    • @njsullyalex2744
      @njsullyalex2744 5 років тому +1

      @@hajoos.8360 That's a good point, all modern jet engines are based on the Jumo/BMW axial flow design!

  • @scootergeorge9576
    @scootergeorge9576 5 років тому +2

    Seems in air to air combat, rearward visibility was important. But with the engine placed where it was, that would be a problem. Check six!

    • @MrAlumni72
      @MrAlumni72 5 років тому

      Also consider what would happen to the pilot if he ejected. Pop ... .and into the engine he goes. Sure, the explosive cartridge was supposed to thrust the pilot clear of the engine - but were there any lucky "volunteers" to test it in actual flight?

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 4 роки тому

      The He-162's cruising airspeed was 520 mph and a top speed of over 560 mph made the aircraft invulnerable to a rearward attack by any Allied fighters in service during WW2.

    • @justinheadley9453
      @justinheadley9453 4 роки тому

      Yes there was actually! Luckily pilots did eject and survived the ordeal.

  • @Red-rl1xx
    @Red-rl1xx 5 років тому

    Just ran across your channel and subscribed! Lots of good stuff!

  • @bibia666
    @bibia666 4 роки тому

    The Dornier Do335 had ejection seat..., was not built in the same numbers tho.
    I think Heinkel did have a headstart with 162 (Bfw did with the 109.., problably).

  • @khyron6
    @khyron6 4 роки тому

    My favorite jet of WW2

  • @ufoengines
    @ufoengines 5 років тому +2

    Cool! Thanks for this post . Did the German ever consider using hemp in the structures of their combat aircraft? I still dig the fact you could start a German turbojet with a pull cord like a lawn mower .

    • @ufoengines
      @ufoengines 5 років тому

      Right On Brother! ua-cam.com/video/HJm_z_OhL4Y/v-deo.html

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 4 роки тому

      German jet engines had electric start, the pull start was just a auxcillery back up feature.

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 4 роки тому

      @@sandervanderkammen9230 None were electric start - they were all started with a petrol engine in the intake or compressed air. Electric starters weighed too much.

    • @tomryan914
      @tomryan914 4 роки тому

      Push start!...Pull start!...Kick start!. (abbreviated racist joke)

  • @petegreaves2657
    @petegreaves2657 4 роки тому +1

    I sure I read some where that for a short while after the war the French used some of them as a stop gap .

  • @thomasaquinas2600
    @thomasaquinas2600 2 роки тому

    If you study the line-up of products that Heinkel offered, you have to wonder why they were overlooked. In most head-to-head matchups against Willy Messerschmidt, Heinkel was pushed out. Was it politics or simple performance. It's not perfectly clear; most competitors thought Messerschmidt had unfair advantages, yet he himself thought he'd been unappreciated. The Luftwaffe was a labyrinth of personalities, between Goering, Milch, Udet, etc.

  • @Biber0315
    @Biber0315 5 років тому +3

    Seems like it has similarities with the A10 Warthog. I wonder it there is any connection between the two designs?

    • @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819
      @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 5 років тому +1

      Biber0315 simple answer, no.

    • @ata8417
      @ata8417 4 роки тому

      Maybe German engineers in America? Idk

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 4 роки тому

      Post war American aircraft design was heavily influenced amd dominated by both Operations Lusty and Paper Clip.

    • @scruffyy111
      @scruffyy111 2 роки тому

      Maybe because it was captured?

  • @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819
    @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 5 років тому +2

    German glue technology was put back, because their best glue factory was destroyed in a bombing raid. The factory wasn't even the intended target.

  • @malcolmlewis5860
    @malcolmlewis5860 5 років тому +1

    Was not the He219 owl the first operational plane with ejections seats?

  • @robertwilloughby8050
    @robertwilloughby8050 3 роки тому

    And the UK used the cockpit and nose design of the He162 as a template for later development. (look at the nose of the Hawker Hunter and tell me they're not similar!)

  • @EmmanuelGoldsteinINGSOC
    @EmmanuelGoldsteinINGSOC 3 роки тому +1

    So this is the first aircraft that had an ejection seat? It should have been the last. You eject and get sucked right into the jet engine!

    • @bubiruski8067
      @bubiruski8067 3 роки тому +1

      Not to get sucked into the engine this aircraft got the ejection seat.
      So what is the point ?

  • @sssmith8440
    @sssmith8440 3 роки тому

    Actually it was the he 219 to be the first with an ejection seat in combat

  • @moltovele9626
    @moltovele9626 3 роки тому

    Built a jet with wood and glue... wow they were REALLY short on supplies

  • @ilsetowler6142
    @ilsetowler6142 2 роки тому

    Actually I wrote the comment attributed to my wife Ilse: The prizewinning novel "Das Fluessiges Land" by Raphaela Edelbauer (Klett Cotta) mentions the factory at Hinterbruehl. John Towler on his wife's computer.

  • @danon4249
    @danon4249 Місяць тому

    Salemander is wrong name. He 162 "Spatz"

  • @TheWorld-of7dd
    @TheWorld-of7dd 3 роки тому

    I don't think the Germans were too late in introducing these jet fighters , even if they had used it earlier in the war , the Allied would have just improvised and copied them by introducing their own jet fighters, but imho this he 162 is not pretty to look at compared to me 262

    • @bubiruski8067
      @bubiruski8067 3 роки тому

      The allied approach to this problem would be to ship ten times as much war material over the Atlantic and sacrifice ten times as many US sons !

  • @corporalpunishment1133
    @corporalpunishment1133 5 років тому +2

    The British test pilots comments make no sense at all if true. By saying this plane has the lightest most aerodynamically effective controls on any aircraft he has flown but it's difficult to handle is like saying this car has great power steering but it handles like a pice of crap. It sounds more like the designers made some technical breakthroughs with power assisted controls but the plane had major design flaws to me. Another WHAT IF the Germans did this video.

    • @warrensmith2902
      @warrensmith2902 5 років тому +2

      Some people would describe it as being to sensitive to control inputs. In that case you have at your command huge ranges of input that to a new pilot may be too much of a first powered aircraft. The tendency would be to over correct on adjustments to your flight attitudes which can result in exceeding the structural capabilities of the airframe. Nice way to say the dam thing falls apart in the air. Not a good . Hehehe. Would still love to fly one though.

    • @myronplichota7965
      @myronplichota7965 5 років тому +2

      Read Eric Brown's book on flying captured German aircraft to get more than a sound bite.

  • @myhairyfoot
    @myhairyfoot 5 років тому

    Great vid!

  • @mdesm2005
    @mdesm2005 4 роки тому

    music becomes too loud towards the end, drowns the voice

  • @hmjets
    @hmjets 5 років тому +1

    best,not forgotten,never!!

  • @ricktimmons458
    @ricktimmons458 5 років тому +4

    slave labor pissed in the glue!

    • @hajoos.8360
      @hajoos.8360 5 років тому

      What would you had done against those rogue-invaders?

  • @scootergeorge9576
    @scootergeorge9576 4 роки тому +1

    Forgotten? Not by aviation buffs.

  • @werre2
    @werre2 5 років тому +1

    Fastest jet in IL-2 1946 sim.

    • @flak8842
      @flak8842 4 роки тому

      in il-2 1964 the fastest jet is the me-163 not the he 162

    • @13stalag13
      @13stalag13 4 роки тому +1

      @@flak8842 The Me-163 is NOT a jet, but a ROCKET powered fighter!

  • @andrewsartscalemodels
    @andrewsartscalemodels 5 років тому +1

    I always thought that the claimed kill was never confirmed.

  • @muhammadtaufiqhailkhairila2790
    @muhammadtaufiqhailkhairila2790 4 роки тому

    Look a bit like A10 warthog

  • @767bob
    @767bob 5 років тому

    This is not a forgotten aircraft......

  • @tbwpiper189
    @tbwpiper189 4 роки тому

    It's amazing how all kinds of "documentaries" and "expert" commentary about the bombing of Germany as having done nothing strategically. Yet the Nazis devoted ALL kinds of energy into AA and fighter designs to deal with the threat. When they failed they lay prostrate and helpless to the ground onslaught that was the Allied victory. So it would be more than arguable to say that the Allied 24-hour bombing campaign was the first step towards total air superiority and the main step in crushing Nazi infrastructure.

  • @rogi_itsumi5370
    @rogi_itsumi5370 5 років тому +1

    This Design is not even close to the best German jet fighters in the late War, so it would be replaced very soon if possible.

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 4 роки тому

      Indeed, German second generation jet aircraft designs like the MiG 15 and F-86 were vastly superior.

    • @tomryan914
      @tomryan914 4 роки тому

      @@sandervanderkammen9230 "Dah" and "You Betcha!"

    • @sandervanderkammen9230
      @sandervanderkammen9230 4 роки тому

      @@tomryan914 Indeed, the MiG-15 was designed by Heinkel Gunter Seigfreid...
      And the efforts Messerschmitt's team brought over with Operation Paperclip and Operation Lusty is what made the F86 possible and formidable.

  • @planecrazynob7984
    @planecrazynob7984 3 роки тому

    0:00 my computer fans when i run minecraft rtx

  • @acescionti711
    @acescionti711 4 роки тому

    Wartime history forgotten aircraft he162. War thunder players. Umm excuse us but we remember it and like our little salamander

  • @jensahlers
    @jensahlers 2 роки тому

    I would like to hear this comment in german language. Thanks.

  • @kkteutsch6416
    @kkteutsch6416 5 років тому

    So joke at 2:40 showing a schollar glue bottle to fix certain issues at HE162 german jet planes but, the question is: the allies had at that war time a jet plane to counterpart these and other german geniouses enginnery machines, except of english Meteor, that their RAF command expressely prohibited their pilots to aproach to Me262 planes, the first operational jet fighter of all WWII ? And remembering that germans used Axial engines, not centrifugal ones...

    • @thedonofbgfmakoflatty172
      @thedonofbgfmakoflatty172 5 років тому

      Step away from the bong and try eating your meals instead of smoking them!
      Who had the first operational jet fighter during WWII?
      Hint: it wasn't the allies...
      Here is another one: the famous P51 wasn't the fastest piston driven aero plane during the Second World War.
      Hint: it was german piston driven aero plane

    • @nerome619
      @nerome619 5 років тому

      @@thedonofbgfmakoflatty172 And the German lost. The Luftwaffe was a spent force from early 1944 onwards. Logistics alone could not support the majority of units. Spares were not available in sufficient quantity and fuel, lubricants and pilots were in short supply.

  • @granskare
    @granskare 4 роки тому +1

    Heinkel had a jet in 1941, luckily the nazis ignored him.

  • @diecastmodsrc8492
    @diecastmodsrc8492 5 років тому

    Great invention, until the ejection seat invented & pilot sucked straight into the turbine