The Napier Sabre is a British H-24-cylinder, liquid-cooled, sleeve valve, piston aero engine, designed by Major Frank Halford and built by D. Napier & Son...

Typhoon. The design team also chose to use the new Mark IV version of the Napier Sabre H-block 24 cylinder engine for the Tempest, drawings of which had become...

same basic layout, but rotated through 90 degrees—most famously the Napier Sabre series. A variation on the "H" theme were the Fairey Prince (H-16) &...

Sabre, a jet fighter aircraft Napier Sabre, a piston aeroengine SaBRE (Supporting Britain's Reservists and Employers), a UK government campaign Sabre...

variants. Napier Cub Napier Culverin Napier Dagger Napier Eland Napier Gazelle Napier Javelin Napier Lion Napier Lioness Napier Naiad Napier Nomad Napier Oryx...

designs from other companies and Napier started afresh with a new sleeve valve design, which evolved into the Napier Sabre. Alliance P.2 Seabird Avro Bison...

and the priority allocation by the Ministry of Aircraft Production of Napier Sabre engines to the Hawker Typhoon caused it to be redesigned with an alternate...

liquid-cooled Napier Sabre engine. Although originally proposed to the Air Ministry and receiving approval as primarily an engine programme, the Napier-Heston...

for its fast rotation, running at up to 4,000 rpm but unlike the later Napier Sabre, it had conventional poppet valves. Although considered a masterpiece...

their more successful Merlin design. Another 24-cylinder engine, the Napier Sabre, proved more successful after a lengthy development period. The supercharged...

considered. Two alternative projects were undertaken: the Type N (for Napier), with a Napier Sabre engine, and the Type R (for Rolls-Royce), equipped with a Rolls-Royce...

Napier had licensed the Junkers Jumo 204 diesel design to set up production in the UK as the Napier Culverin, but the onset of the war made the Sabre...

substantial use in British aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre, Bristol Hercules, Centaurus, and the promising but never mass-produced...

Typhoon and Hawker Tempest also used the Coffman system to start their Napier Sabre engines. Cartridge starters used on a number of jet engines, including...

Merlin-powered DH.91, with the Bristol Hercules (radial engine) and Napier Sabre (H-engine) as alternatives. On 7 July 1938, de Havilland wrote to Air...

ADC Cirrus de Havilland Gipsy de Havilland Gipsy Major Napier Rapier Napier Dagger Napier Sabre Siddeley Puma de Havilland H.1 Goblin de Havilland H.2...

construction to produce a new design, the MB 3, which was powered by a 2,000 hp Napier Sabre 24-cylinder, H-type engine, driving a de Havilland variable-pitch three-bladed...

flutter and buffeting at high speeds, due to the positioning of the heavy Napier Sabre engine intake very close to the wing root. The engineering of the aircraft...

same problems as the later Dagger and Sabre engines. The Fairey Seafox and Short S.20 were both powered by the Napier Rapier. List from Lumsden. Airspeed...

while P.1018 was also used for a Fury prototype which was to use a Napier Sabre IV. The first Fury to fly, on 1 September 1944, was NX798 with a Centaurus...

engine manufacturers), because they were designed for the newly developed Napier Sabre and Rolls-Royce Vulture, engines respectively. Both engines used 24 cylinders...

by a single ring, were also used on the inline H-block sleeve valve Napier Sabre engine. Cooling is difficult with a junk head, with either air or water...

propeller speed reduction unit. The new engine followed the layout of the Napier Sabre and similarly used sleeve valves but with a simplified drive system....

of the new 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) engines then being planned, either the Napier Sabre or Rolls-Royce Vulture which required a larger airframe than the nimble...

Fairey, Handley Page and Shorts. Vickers also had its Warwick, which had Napier Sabre engines, but eventually chose against tendering it. In early 1937, both...

(781 km/h) as did a prototype Hawker Fury monoplane when fitted with a Napier Sabre VII, and a conversion of one of the prototypes of the Supermarine Spiteful...

1004 Hawker P.1005 - high speed unarmed bomber, to be powered by two Napier Sabre engines, to Specification B11/41 Hawker P.1007 Hawker P.1008 Hawker P...

A modified MB 3 with a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, rather than the Napier Sabre of the MB 3, was planned as the MB 4, but a full redesign was chosen...

Comparable engines Daimler-Benz DB 604 Daimler-Benz DB 606 Junkers Jumo 222 Napier Sabre Rolls-Royce Vulture Related lists List of aircraft engines Wikimedia...

the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, or combining a larger airframe with a Napier Sabre engine. After consideration of the manufacturer's responses, Specification...