The Beardmore Tornado is an eight-cylinder inline diesel aircraft engine built in 1927 by William Beardmore and Company of Glasgow, Scotland, and used in the British R101 airship when petrol engines were thought unsafe in the tropics. The model is given as Tornado IIIA or Tornado III C.I. The fuel is described as Diesel heavy-oil.[1]
^Masefield, Sir Peter G: To Ride the Storm: The Story of the Airship R.101; frontispiece, pages 494-496 (1982, William Kimber, London) ISBN 0-7183-0068-8
The BeardmoreTornado is an eight-cylinder inline diesel aircraft engine built in 1927 by William Beardmore and Company of Glasgow, Scotland, and used...
the use of the eight-cylinder BeardmoreTornado was proposed instead. This was an engine being developed by Beardmore, combining two four-cylinder engines...
Wright and Pratt & Whitney designs, and was contemporary with the BeardmoreTornado used in the R101 airship. The use of a diesel had been specified for...
(instead of the five used by R.101) of an improved version of the BeardmoreTornado diesel engine with a maximum total output of 850 bhp (630 kW) and...
as the 120 hp, 160 hp and BeardmoreTornado (diesel). They also manufactured aircraft and airships, such as the Beardmore W.B.III, and R23X class airship...
fit the BeardmoreTornado diesel engine that was being developed for the Air Ministry for installation in R101. At an early stage the Tornado was judged...
manufacturers in the 1930s, e.g. by William Beardmore and Company for the Canadian National Railways (the BeardmoreTornado engine was subsequently used in the...
burning a mixture of hydrogen and kerosene. The program to develop the BeardmoreTornado diesel engines was beset with difficulties, the engines being both...
developed for airship use, these were generally unsuccessful. The British BeardmoreTornado was based on medium-speed diesel engine practice and was both heavy...
The Beardmore 160 hp is a British six-cylinder, water-cooled aero engine that first ran in 1916. It was built by Arrol-Johnston and Crossley Motors for...
Galloway’s parent company, William Beardmore & Co. In contemporary publications the type is often referred to as the Beardmore, or BHP, Atlantic or 500 hp....
The Beardmore Cyclone was an aero engine produced by William Beardmore & Co with the aim of producing an engine generating a high power output at low revolutions...
Siddeley-Deasy developed their version of the 230 hp BHP as the Siddeley Puma. Beardmore-Halford-Pullinger (BHP) were initially tasked with developing an aero-engine...
1976. BAC and subsequently British Aerospace would deliver 228 Tornado GR1s and 152 Tornado F3s to the RAF. For most of its history, BAC was the subject...
The Beardmore 120 hp was a British six-cylinder, water-cooled aero engine that first ran in 1914, it was built by William Beardmore and Company as a licensed-built...
European companies. Eurofighter's customer is the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA), operating on behalf of the partner nations....
Force respectively. On 25 September 1981, the first Italian Tornado was delivered. The Tornado would be produced in large numbers, the 500th aircraft to...
well as Airbus, British Aerospace and DASA were partners in the Panavia Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft projects. Merger discussions began between...
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