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, two-row design that eventually delivered over 3,000 hp (2,200 kW). The engine was introduced into service late in the Second World War and was one of the most powerful aircraft piston engines to see service.
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...
of eight BristolCentaurus radial engines which drove eight paired contra-rotating propellers set on four forward-facing nacelles. Bristol decided to...
options for 25 aircraft on 28 July powered by the BristolCentaurus, but to be re-fitted with the Bristol Proteus when available. In November 1948, the Type...
numbers LA602 and LA607), equipped with the BristolCentaurus Mk.IV engine (LA607 later receiving a Centaurus Mk.V) One Tempest Mk.III (serial number LA610)...
growth in air travel. While outfitted with the new but conventional BristolCentaurus radial engines, the Ambassador was designed to accommodate four Napier...
Sabre engine, led to alternatives being explored in the form of the BristolCentaurus and Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engines. By the time...
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 BristolCentaurus engines. These features made the aircraft splendid for formation flying...
engines use sleeve valves such as the 14-cylinder Bristol Hercules and the 18-cylinder BristolCentaurus, which are quieter and smoother running but require...
and a range of 1,600 miles) meant a redesign by Bristol to use the BristolCentaurus engine. The Bristol redesign with a larger wing and the more powerful...
production, but further developments led to the Bristol Hercules, Bristol Taurus, and BristolCentaurus. The Aquila was developed two years after the somewhat...
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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...
other engine layouts considered included the use of two Bristol Hercules or BristolCentaurus radial engines. The Handley Page HP.56, always intended...
have been provided by a pair of a development of the Bristol Perseus using nine BristolCentaurus cylinders, each engine rated at 1,150 hp (860 kW). Early...
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) BristolCentaurus radial engine, Centaurus 59 engines on the next 22, and Centaurus 60s of the remainder. In addition...
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...
aerofoil. He also considered the new and powerful Napier Sabre and BristolCentaurus engines as the powerplant. Camm decided that both engines would be...
433 kg) Max takeoff weight: 38,193 lb (17,324 kg) Powerplant: 2 × BristolCentaurus VII eighteen-cylinder air-cooled radial engines, 2,400 hp (1,800 kW)...
bomb load of 20,000 lb (9,072 kg). The projected engines were the BristolCentaurus radial or the Napier Sabre inline. Shorts and the other British manufacturer...
design, the Centaurus 77 engine with contra-rotating propellers was cancelled in January 1946 and a conventional 2,825 hp (2,107 kW) Centaurus 57 was substituted...
Duplex-Cyclone and just 54 cm3 (3.3 cu in) larger than the British BristolCentaurus. One problem with the 801 was its poor altitude performance, due almost...
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