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    The Bristol Mercury is a British nine-cylinder, air-cooled, single-row, piston radial engine. Designed by Roy Fedden of the Bristol Aeroplane Company...
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  • Mercury 6 or variants may refer to: Mercury 6, a spacecraft of Project Mercury Mercury VI, several versions of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine Mercury-Atlas...
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  • up Mercury or mercury in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mercury most commonly refers to: Mercury (planet), the closest planet to the Sun Mercury (element)...
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  • Mercury 5 or variants may refer to: Mercury 5, a spacecraft of Project Mercury Mercury V, a version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine Mercury-Atlas...
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  • The Bristol Mercury was a newspaper published in the English city of Bristol between 1716 and 1909. The first edition in 1716 was published by Henry Greep...
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    been shelved in favour of the supercharger-equipped, poppet-valve Bristol Mercury engine. Deeming it suitable for the challenge, the design of Type 135...
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  • Project Mercury Mercury VII, a version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine Mercury (disambiguation) Mercury-Atlas 7, a 1962 space flight This disambiguation...
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    Bolingbroke Mk I Twin-engine maritime patrol bomber aircraft, powered by two Bristol Mercury VIII radial piston engines, with British equipment. 18 built. Bolingbroke...
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    the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Company's very successful Bristol Jupiter, using lessons learned in development of the Mercury. Although having a...
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  • Beck Mercury I, a version of the Blackburn Mercury early British aircraft Mercury I, a 1926 version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine Mercury (disambiguation)...
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  • Company in the late 1920s. It had the same size cylinders as the earlier Bristol Mercury engine, 5.75 in × 6.5 in (146 mm × 165 mm) (displacing 844 cu in (13...
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    of refined prototypes, the P.11/II and the P.11/III, which used the Bristol Mercury engine instead. They were later joined by several more pre-production...
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    resulted in the Bristol Mercury of 1927. Applying the same techniques to the original Jupiter-sized engine in 1927 resulted in the Bristol Pegasus. Neither...
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  • 1935 version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine Mercury (disambiguation) Mercury-Atlas 8, a 1962 crewed space flight Mercury V8, an automobile This...
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    This prototype, designated FD-322, which was powered by a single Bristol Mercury VI-S radial engine which drove a three-blade, two-pitch propeller,...
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  • version of the Blackburn Mercury early British aircraft Mercury II, a 1928 version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine The Mercury II, a crashed spaceship...
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    the city's boundaries. The commission's timidity was attacked by the Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, who accused them of using the "crude method of the...
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    The result was a Bristol Mercury-sized engine adapted to the sleeve valve system, the Perseus, and its smaller cousin, the Bristol Aquila. The first...
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    prototypes were ordered, the first being powered by a 880 hp (660 kW) Bristol Mercury XII radial engine built by Nohab in Sweden, and the second with an...
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    for another aircraft to meet F.9/26 powered by the Mercury engine then under development at Bristol. These proposals looked promising enough for a pair...
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    by a Bristol Mercury IX radial piston-engine; three built for Latvia. Persian Hind Modified version of the Hind Mk I, powered by a Bristol Mercury VIII...
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    interplane struts were also dispensed with as a drag-reduction measure. The Bristol Mercury M.E.30 radial engine, capable of generating 700 hp (520 kW), was selected...
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  • Coventry Herald, Friday 10 March 1905 "Chamber Concert in Clifton" Bristol Mercury, Tuesday 13 February 1900 "The Elizabethan Stage" The Era, Saturday...
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    to incorporate these features. The Lysander was to be powered by a Bristol Mercury air-cooled radial engine and had high wings and a fixed conventional...
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    15/6/1867 The Bury and Norwich Post. 9/5/1871 Bristol Mercury and Daily Post. 22/2/1879 Bristol Mercury and Daily Post. 3/4/1879 Daily News. 14/12/1887...
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  • Mercury Mercury III, a version of the Blackburn Mercury early British aircraft Mercury III, a 1929 version of the Bristol Mercury aircraft engine Mercury (disambiguation)...
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    having demonstrated a maximum speed of 189 MPH, difficulties with the Bristol Mercury IIA engine that powered the aircraft motivated Gloster to explore other...
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    orders. The Luchtvaartafdeeling ordered 36 G.I's with 541 kW (825 hp) Bristol Mercury VIII engines, the standard engine used by the Dutch Air Force in the...
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    Boyce, Simon (1995), Freddie Mercury, Bristol: Parragon, ISBN 978-1-86105-054-0. Clarke, Ross (1991), Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic, Oxted: Kingsfleet...
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    private venture contender. At the same time Bristol started work on a second design. Powered by a Bristol Mercury radial engine, the Type 133 was a low-wing...
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