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...

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...

of eight Bristol Centaurus radial engines which drove eight paired contra-rotating propellers set on four forward-facing nacelles. Bristol decided to...

Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. Centaurus may also refer to: Centaurus (Greek mythology), father of the race of mythological...

growth in air travel. While outfitted with the new but conventional Bristol Centaurus radial engines, the Ambassador was designed to accommodate four Napier...

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 &...

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)...

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...

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...

production, but further developments led to the Bristol Hercules, Bristol Taurus, and Bristol Centaurus. The Aquila was developed two years after the somewhat...

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...

Related development Bristol Hercules Bristol Centaurus Related lists List of aircraft engines Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bristol Perseus. Lumsden...

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...

Sabre (four), Bristol Centaurus radial, and Rolls-Royce Griffon V-engine. Entering service in 1940, the type was operated by the Bristol Aeroplane Company...

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...

Centrifugal supercharger for a Bristol Centaurus radial engine...

payloads. The project was boosted by Bristol Aeroplane Company's agreement to develop a version of the Centaurus engine with a two-speed supercharger...

other engine layouts considered included the use of two Bristol Hercules or Bristol Centaurus radial engines. The Handley Page HP.56, always intended...

for the Hawker Typhoon fighter. L9704 was instead fitted with the Bristol Centaurus radial engine. Other aspects of the design proved troublesome, such...

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...

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...

aerofoil. He also considered the new and powerful Napier Sabre and Bristol Centaurus engines as the powerplant. Camm decided that both engines would be...

British aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre, Bristol Hercules, Centaurus, and the promising but never mass-produced Rolls-Royce Crecy...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

In 1950 the huge Bristol Brabazon airliner made its debut, powered by coupled Bristol Centaurus piston engines before the Bristol Proteus turboprops...

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...

Power-to-weight ratio: 1.83 kW/kg (1,11 hp/lb) Comparable engines BMW 802 Bristol Centaurus Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Wright R-3350 Shvetsov ASh-73 Nakajima Sakae...