I have seen many references to BRISTOL AeroEngine experimental research into turbochargers but I have yet to find any comprehensive detail. Does anyone have any useful web-links to information on these experiments by BRISTOL? Thanks.
These are the relevant pages from the "The Supercharging of Aircraft and Motor-Vehicle Engines" from 1927 by A.H.R. Fedden. Not a lot of info, but maybe a starting point.
These are the relevant pages from the "The Supercharging of Aircraft and Motor-Vehicle Engines" from 1927 by A.H.R. Fedden. Not a lot of info, but maybe a starting point.
You're the man! Spot on. Gives all the relevant detail. ROLLS ROYCE also played around turbocharging the Condor engine so it seems England wasn't entirely a backwater when it came to turbocharger research. Bit of a mystery though why the RAE didn't co-opt Whittle into modern turbo research and development.
You're the man! Spot on. Gives all the relevant detail. ROLLS ROYCE also played around turbocharging the Condor engine so it seems England wasn't entirely a backwater when it came to turbocharger research. Bit of a mystery though why the RAE didn't co-opt Whittle into modern turbo research and development.
When asked for a high altitude engine for the Wellington RR considered using a turbo but decided against it, at least in part, because it would be difficult/ impossible to fit in a single engined plane like the Spitfire.
Polite <ahem>
When people refer to technology developed by the British and manufactured across Britain, would they please refer to Britain and the British, and *not* 'England' and 'the English'?
I have seen many references to BRISTOL AeroEngine experimental research into turbochargers but I have yet to find any comprehensive detail. Does anyone have any useful web-links to information on these experiments by BRISTOL? Thanks.
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For information some extracts from wartime books on superchargers used on Bristol aero engines, from 'Aeronautical Engineering' Ed. R A Beaumont, Chapter V 'Supercharging of Aero Engines:
Also from 'Internal Combustion Engines Illustrated', Chapter 12 'Supercharging of Engines' by J L Batchelor:
Mike