Engine – de Havilland Gipsy Major
This is a famous engine and will be remembered by many as the engine which powered the famous DH Tiger Moth, the aircraft which thousands of RAF …
Collection: Aero Engines
Engine – de Havilland Gipsy Queen 175
This is an inverted air-cooled six-cylinder engine and in general resembles the inverted four-cylinder ones, usually representing developments of the latter type for higher power. Bore 4.72ins, …
Engine – de Havilland Goblin 2
In the race to get a viable engine from Whittle’s design, de Havilland were also asked to develop a gas turbine. Halford, de Havilland’s engine designer, used …
Engine – Junkers Jumo 205
The Junkers Jumo 205 came from the opposed-piston, vertical cylinder, two stroke liquid-cooled pattern. Typical examples of this type of engine were the Jumo 204 (750hp), 205-C …
Engine – Alvis Leonides 128
This post-war derivative of the Alvis 9ARS appeared in numerous sub-variants. The Leonides is a 9-cylinder, air-cooled single-row radial poppet-valve engine. The Leonides 503/7A, Mk 128 01/2, …
Engine – Alvis Leonides Major
A 14-cylinder, two-row radial engine, the Leonides Major 755/1. Mk 155, 780hp seen here, is a medium supercharged, de-rated engine. It is an oblique, direct-drive helicopter engine …
Engine – Anzani 6-Cylinder
It was an Anzani engine which powered the tiny monoplane in which M. Bleriot made the memorable first flight across the English Channel on 25 July 1909. …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah XV
We are not sure of the mark number of this engine as the nameplate was missing on receipt, but it is typical of all the Cheetah engines …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Avon R.A.3-101
The Avon was tested in mid 1947. At 6000lb static thrust it made its first public display at the 1948 Farnborough Show in a Lancastrian flying test-bed …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major IA ‘Civet’
Early in 1934 A.V. Roe acquired a licence to build the Cierva C30A two-seat autogiro (140hp SS Genet Major 1A) including the whole of the rotor system. …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Dart RDa 3 Mk.506
This is a famous and very successful turbo-prop engine, the design of which commenced in 1945. Test bed aircraft included the Lancaster (1947) and the Dakota (1949). …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Mamba
The Mamba has virtually a straight-through air flow system, its diameter (less than 30ins measured over the cowling) is remarkably small and the frontal area only about …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Derwent
The Derwent 1 was designed to the same diameter as the Welland as it had to fit the same Meteor nacelle. It was designed to produce 2000lb …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 200
The Sapphire engine is a turbojet with an axial-flow compressor and an annular combustion chamber of the Armstrong Siddeley vaporising type. It was the first British turbojet …