The Bristol Perseus was a British nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial aircraft engine produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1932...
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market and, in order to deliver larger engines, Bristol developed 14-cylinder versions of both. The Perseus evolved into the Hercules, and the Aquila into...
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designed by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1934. A sleeve valve engine, its basic design was developed from the Bristol Perseus. The Aquila was...
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other Bristol sleeve valve engines, the Centaurus was based on the design knowledge acquired from an earlier design, in this case the Bristol Perseus cylinder...
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the proposed aircraft were originally intended to be powered by the Bristol Perseus radial engine, capable of producing 850 hp (634 kW). At a late stage...
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was to have been provided by a pair of a development of the Bristol Perseus using nine Bristol Centaurus cylinders, each engine rated at 1,150 hp (860 kW)...
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Perseus, persus, Περσέας, or Περσεύς in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Perseus is a figure in Greek mythology. Perseus may also refer to: Perseus (geometer)...
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control surfaces were fabric covered. It was powered by two 890 hp Bristol Perseus air-cooled sleeve-valve radial engines driving three-bladed de Havilland...
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increased weight the Bristol Mercury engines on the Blenheim were to be replaced by more powerful, sleeve valve, Bristol Perseus motors. It was soon determined...
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prototypes were powered by the Bristol Mercury XII radial engine; however, production Skuas were instead powered by the Bristol Perseus XII, largely due to the...
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In the 1930s, and led by Roy Fedden, the company developed the new Bristol Perseus line of radials based on the sleeve valve principle, which developed...
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series was outfitted with four Bristol Perseus XIIc sleeve valve engines in the place of the Pegasus engines; the Perseus engines were more efficient but...
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RAF. The Mark IV introduced the much more powerful 825 hp (615 kW) Bristol Perseus sleeve valve radial engine enclosed in a NACA cowling which significantly...
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slight dihedral to obviate the upturned wingtips. It was powered by a Bristol Perseus radial engine that drove a three-bladed propeller. Amongst other things...
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or injector. Bristol developed a two-part head to address this problem, with copper conducting fins. Usually "junk head" around Bristol engines or "junkhead"...
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eventually seeing widespread use in British aero engines starting with the Bristol Perseus in 1932. In 1909 the Scottish engineer Peter Burt patented a single...
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148 was the Bristol Perseus, but the aircraft made its first flight on 15 October 1937 with a Mercury IX. It was re-engined with a Perseus XII after a...
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F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate is the second standalone expansion pack for the first-person shooter psychological horror video game F.E.A.R. First Encounter...
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proposed to use either the Pegasus or the sleeve-valve 9-cylinder radial Bristol Perseus engines instead of the evaporative-cooled Goshawk, which promised improvements...
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sleeve-valved Bristol Perseus were used in various types, and more than 2,500 of the largest-displacement production British radial from the Bristol firm to...
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canopy. The Type 146 was designed to be powered by a supercharged Bristol Perseus sleeve valve radial engine, but this was not ready, and the older,...
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licence in the United Kingdom by Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft, powered by two Bristol Perseus XIVC radials as the Cunliffe-Owen OA-1. A contemporary photo shows...
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use in British aircraft engines of the 1940s, such as the Napier Sabre, Bristol Hercules, Centaurus, and the promising but never mass-produced Rolls-Royce...
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the tailplane, as for the Gladiator. The engine was to be the new Bristol Perseus sleeve-valve radial. The cockpit was semi-enclosed, with open sides...
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sleeve-valve aero engine led to the development of engines such as the Bristol Perseus, the Napier Sabre and the Rolls-Royce Eagle. Ricardo, H. R. (May 1948)...
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lower wings. The engine nacelles were designed to receive Bristol Jupiter, Pegasus or Perseus engines without modification, This later enabled the two...
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converted into target tugs. Lysander Mk.II Powered by one 905 hp (675 kW) Bristol Perseus XII sleeve valve radial piston engine. Lysander TT Mk.II Target tug...
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use of heavier and more powerful radial engines such as the Bristol Perseus and Bristol Pegasus. According to aviation author Philip J.R. Moyes, the...
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500 lb (14,288 kg) Gross weight: 41,500 lb (18,824 kg) Powerplant: 4 × Bristol Perseus XII 9-cylinder air-cooled radial engines, 830 hp (620 kW) each Propellers:...
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improved version of the aircrft that was powered by either Bristol Aquila and Bristol Perseus radial engines. In February 1936, Mitchell approached the...
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