The Napier Naiad is a British turboprop gas-turbine engine designed and built by D. Napier & Son in the late 1940s. It was the company's first gas turbine engine. A twin version known as the Coupled Naiad was developed but both engine projects were cancelled before finding a market.[1] The Naiad was also used, in adapted form, in the Napier Nomad turbo-compound engine design.
The NapierNaiad is a British turboprop gas-turbine engine designed and built by D. Napier & Son in the late 1940s. It was the company's first gas turbine...
resemblance to half of a Napier Sabre's H-24. Mounted below this were the rotating parts of a turboprop engine, based on the Naiad design, the output of...
engines and because Napier turned its attention to developing turboprop engines such as the Naiad and Eland. Prior to the Sabre, Napier had been working...
pair of turboprops. Lincoln Test Bed RF530 kept its Merlins but had a NapierNaiad turboprop in the nose. It later flew, bearing the civilian "Class B"...
Tay turbojet. Type 640 Planned third prototype, to be powered by four NapierNaiad turboprops. Not built, with parts incorporated in Type 700 prototype...
Rolls-Royce Tay turbojet. Type 640 Planned third prototype, powered by four NapierNaiad turboprops. Not built, with parts incorporated in Type 700 prototype...
four-engined variant with NapierNaiads or Rolls-Royce Darts. From the first prototypes, the Ambassador's wing had been stressed for four Naiad turboprops, but...
England. He began his training at sea when he was thirteen, aboard the barque Naiad, in March 1891. He later obtained his Second Mate’s Certificate of competency...
Bonaventure (31) off Crete 31 March 1941 Sunk by Italian submarine Ambra HMS Naiad (93) off Crete 11 March 1942 Sunk by U-565 HMS Spartan (95) off Anzio 29...
Uist is considered the best place in the UK for the aquatic plant Slender Naiad, which is a European Protected Species. There has been considerable controversy...
Uist is considered the best place in the UK for the aquatic plant slender naiad, which is a European Protected Species. Hedgehogs are not native to the...
Mediterranean theatre as executive officer of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Naiad, and survived her sinking by a German U-boat in March 1942. Returning to...
July 1824. Promoted to midshipman, he transferred to the fifth-rate HMS Naiad in August 1824 and took park in operations against pirates later in the...
Between May 1802 and October 1804 he served aboard the frigates Fisgard and Naiad, commanded by Captain James Wallis on the Home Station, and was rated as...
Schow, David J. (2010). The Art of Drew Struzan, 2010, Titan Books, p 20 Napier, Jim (2012). "Update on DREW: THE MAN BEHIND THE POSTER & New Clip". Geek...
down and the submarine HMS Upholder was lost. On 10 March, the cruiser HMS Naiad was sunk by a U-boat and on 10 May, three of four destroyers were sunk by...
wrecked in November 1940 whilst being chased by the British cruiser HMS Naiad. The ship was 45.44 metres (149 ft 1 in) long, with a beam of 7.67 metres...
valet) and together moved to HMS Achille. After a brief spell apart on HMS Naiad he rejoined Captain Butler on the 80-gun HMS Malta in March 1803. He was...
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