The Centaurus was the final development of the Bristol Engine Company's series of sleeve valve radial aircraft engines. The Centaurus is an 18-cylinder...
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options for 25 aircraft on 28 July powered by the Bristol Centaurus, but to be re-fitted with the Bristol Proteus when available. In November 1948, the Type...
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of eight Bristol Centaurus radial engines which drove eight paired contra-rotating propellers set on four forward-facing nacelles. Bristol decided to...
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Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. Centaurus may also refer to: Centaurus (Greek mythology), father of the race of mythological...
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growth in air travel. While outfitted with the new but conventional Bristol Centaurus radial engines, the Ambassador was designed to accommodate four Napier...
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Power-to-weight ratio: 0.7 hp/lb (1.16 kW/kg) Related development Bristol Perseus Bristol Centaurus Comparable engines BMW 801 Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Pratt &...
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numbers LA602 and LA607), equipped with the Bristol Centaurus Mk.IV engine (LA607 later receiving a Centaurus Mk.V) One Tempest Mk.III (serial number LA610)...
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to be powered by Rolls-Royce Griffon engines, two with Centaurus XXIIs, one with a Centaurus XII and one as a test structure. Hawker used the internal...
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nicely balanced flying controls and a wide range of power in the two Bristol Centaurus engines. These features made the aircraft splendid for formation flying...
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engines use sleeve valves such as the 14-cylinder Bristol Hercules and the 18-cylinder Bristol Centaurus, which are quieter and smoother running but require...
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production, but further developments led to the Bristol Hercules, Bristol Taurus, and Bristol Centaurus. The Aquila was developed two years after the somewhat...
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have been provided by a pair of a development of the Bristol Perseus using nine Bristol Centaurus cylinders, each engine rated at 1,150 hp (860 kW). Early...
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Sabre (four), Bristol Centaurus radial, and Rolls-Royce Griffon V-engine. Entering service in 1940, the type was operated by the Bristol Aeroplane Company...
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Related development Bristol Hercules Bristol Centaurus Related lists List of aircraft engines Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bristol Perseus. Lumsden...
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and a range of 1,600 miles) meant a redesign by Bristol to use the Bristol Centaurus engine. The Bristol redesign with a larger wing and the more powerful...
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payloads. The project was boosted by Bristol Aeroplane Company's agreement to develop a version of the Centaurus engine with a two-speed supercharger...
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other engine layouts considered included the use of two Bristol Hercules or Bristol Centaurus radial engines. The Handley Page HP.56, always intended...
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Centrifugal supercharger for a Bristol Centaurus radial engine...
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for the Hawker Typhoon fighter. L9704 was instead fitted with the Bristol Centaurus radial engine. Other aspects of the design proved troublesome, such...
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IV Blackburn B-46, improved variant with 2,520 bhp (1,880 kW) Centaurus IX or Centaurus 57, 250 ordered, but only 170 were completed, of which 124 were...
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use 2,600-horsepower (1,900 kW) Bristol Centaurus radial engine, Centaurus 59 engines on the next 22, and Centaurus 60s of the remainder. In addition...
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aerofoil. He also considered the new and powerful Napier Sabre and Bristol Centaurus engines as the powerplant. Camm decided that both engines would be...
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British aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre, Bristol Hercules, Centaurus, and the promising but never mass-produced Rolls-Royce Crecy...
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433 kg) Max takeoff weight: 38,193 lb (17,324 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Bristol Centaurus VII eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial engines, 2,400 hp (1,800 kW)...
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by a Centaurus CE.4S. This Tornado was built from two incomplete production airframes (R7937 and R7938), was a testbed for a number of Centaurus engine/propeller...
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low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction, it was powered by four Bristol Centaurus radial engines driving five-bladed propellers. It had a large tailplane...
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Duplex-Cyclone and just 54 cm3 (3.3 cu in) larger than the British Bristol Centaurus. One problem with the 801 was its poor altitude performance, due almost...
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In 1950 the huge Bristol Brabazon airliner made its debut, powered by coupled Bristol Centaurus piston engines before the Bristol Proteus turboprops...
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Abingdon the crew attempted to increase power from the remaining three Bristol Centaurus engines but No. 2 engine – also on the port wing – failed to respond...
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bomb load of 20,000 lb (9,072 kg). The projected engines were the Bristol Centaurus radial or the Napier Sabre inline. Shorts and the other British manufacturer...
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