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Bristol Aero Collection (1338 words) |
 | Bristol started building aero engines on the Filton site around 1920, but the line can be traced back to the Brazil-Staker motorcar manufacturer, who built Rolls-Royce engines under licence during World War I. The company was taken over by Cosmos Engineering, who built the Mercury and the Jupiter radial engines. |
| The Bristol Hercules has 14 cylinders in two rows, and is a sleeve-valved radial air-cooled engine. |
| A scaled-down version of the engine, the Bristol Siddeley Gyron Junior, was used on the Bristol 188 stainless steel research aircraft, which was designed to investigate the effect of supersonic speeds on airframe structure. |
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Bristol Aeroplane Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (871 words) |
| Bristol was involved in the post war renaissance of British civilian aircraft as inspired by the Brabazon Committee report. |
| At the same time the Bristol Britannia turboprop-powered airliner proved a success and it and Bristol Freighter transport aircraft were produced in quantity during the 1950s. |
| A research aircraft, the Bristol 188, was constructed in the 1950s to test the feasibilty of stainless steel as a material in a Mach 2.0 airframe. |
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