Early Rolls-Royce Avon Variants

[Zipper730]

I'm curious if anybody has figures for length, overall diameter, and inlet diameter for the early RR Avons, the versions that powered the first Canberras in particular?

 

[pbehn]

They were scaled up versions of the English manhood and so were gigantic (that is a joke BTW)

 

[Zipper730]

They were scaled up versions of the English manhood and so were gigantic (that is a joke BTW)

This is a technical specs question, I just didn't put it on the normal section because it was post WWII...

 

[Graeme]

A few details on the Avon's from a '54 publication...

 

[fastmongrel]

They were scaled up versions of the English manhood and so were gigantic (that is a joke BTW)

Blackadder's Black Russian

 

[GreenKnight121]

A few details on the Avon's from a '54 publication...

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Looks like the engine section of a 1950s Jane's All the World's Aircraft.

 

[Avn-Tech]

When did they add electric starts to the Avon series of engines?
I have a 1954, Canberra B.6, with cart start and would like to convert into electric start.

 

[SaparotRob]

Blackadder's Black Russian

More Blackadder.

 

[XBe02Drvr]

I have a 1954, Canberra B.6, with cart start and would like to convert into electric start.

In 1974 the EB57s of the 158th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron pulled a surprise raid on our base, and caught us with our pants down. When they got ready to leave, their cartridge starters threw CFR into a panic, and despite having been briefed, they came within a split second of foaming a running engine. The squadron CO, wise to the ways of trigger happy firefighters, climbed right up the front of the pumper truck and got right in the nozzle gunner's face. I was sitting in the cab of my 9000 gallon JP4 truck a hundred yards away and seriously thinking of "gettin' outta Dodge"!