Brazil Straker Cosmos Engineering Bristol Aeroplane Company
Projects
Bristol Jupiter
Significant advance
Aircraft engines
Awards
Member of the Order of the British Empire (1920) Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1938) Knighted (1942)
Sir Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden MBE, FRAeS (6 June 1885 – 21 November 1973)[1] was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Company's successful piston aircraft engine designs.
^Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Retrieved: 31 December 2008
Sir Alfred Hubert RoyFedden MBE, FRAeS (6 June 1885 – 21 November 1973) was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Company's successful piston...
The Cotswold was a turboprop aircraft engine designed by RoyFedden after the Second World War. Intended to power airliners for short or medium ranges...
mountaineer Romilly Fedden (1875–1939), British artist RoyFedden (1885–1973), British engineer Fedder This page lists people with the surname Fedden. If an internal...
making him offers regarding his wartime projects. Aeronautical engineer RoyFedden remarked that the only craft that could approach the capabilities attributed...
Hercules is a 14-cylinder two-row radial aircraft engine designed by Sir RoyFedden and produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1939. It was the...
location of the Heinkel-Hirth engine works, the post-war Fedden Mission, led by Sir RoyFedden, found jet engine manufacturing was simpler and required...
in May 1919. For £15,000 Bristol got the Cosmos design team, headed by RoyFedden, along with a small number of completed engines and tooling. Although...
nine-cylinder, air-cooled, single-row, piston radial engine. Designed by RoyFedden of the Bristol Aeroplane Company it was used to power both civil and military...
projected enlarged capacity version of the Centaurus was designed by Sir RoyFedden; cylinders were produced for this engine, but it was never built. Known...
decreasing at low and medium loads, which ultimately reduced the efficiency. RoyFedden at Bristol tested an arrangement in the Bristol Jupiter IV engine in 1928...
Mary Fedden, OBE RA PPRWA (14 August 1915 – 22 June 2012) was a British artist. Sometimes mistakenly described as the daughter of RoyFedden (who was...
nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial aero engine. Designed by RoyFedden of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, it was used to power both civil and...
The Fedden car (or F-car) was a British automobile produced after the Second World War by RoyFedden Ltd. It was never manufactured. Designed by Roy Fedden...
Romilly Fedden (1875–1939) was an English artist and watercolourist. The son of businessman Henry Fedden, his younger brother was the engineer RoyFedden. Romilly...
German aircraft and aeroengines. It was named for the Mission's leader, RoyFedden. It visited Bad Oeynhausen, Bad Eilsen, Völkenrode, Braunschweig, Magdeburg...
of these advantages were evaluated and established during the 1920s by RoyFedden and Harry Ricardo, possibly the sleeve valve engine's greatest advocate...
as the Shvetsov M-22. The Jupiter was designed during World War I by RoyFedden of Brazil Straker and later Cosmos Engineering. The first Jupiter was...
engines for the RFC in World War I. Cosmos Engineering bought the firm and RoyFedden designed the Cosmos Mercury engine before the company was forced into...
efficiency and compact design, particularly in multi-row radial engines. RoyFedden, Bristol's primary engine designer, became interested in the concept and...
aero-engines in a factory in Fishponds, Bristol during World War I. Sir RoyFedden, the company's principal designer, developed the 14-cylinder radial Mercury...
worth building. Postwar, the British scientific mission's leader, Sir RoyFedden, called it "interesting and innovative" and considered it "one of the...
Kolbermoor, location of the Heinkel-Hirth engine works, the Fedden Mission, led by Sir RoyFedden, found jet-engine manufacturing was simpler and required...
2010. Gunston, Bill (1998). Fedden – the life of Sir RoyFedden. RRHT. ISBN 1-872922-13-9. Historical Series, Nº26. RRHT, Fedden. "Tockington Quarry". Wikimedia...
and from there to England at the request of British engine designer RoyFedden. He had them work on the design of a turboprop engine for a proposed C-54...
used by civil operators due to the expense of the cartridges. In 1920 RoyFedden designed a piston engine gas starting system, used on the Bristol Jupiter...
more harmful to production than attacks on factories themselves, Sir RoyFedden (in his report on a postwar British scientific intelligence mission) calling...
considerable interest in the adoption of alternative engines for the type. RoyFedden, chief designer of the Bristol engine division, was a keen advocate for...
engine, another sleeve valve design. For these engines, chief designer RoyFedden developed special low-drag NACA cowlings, which exhausted air through...