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90 relations: Air Ministry, Airco DH.9, Aircraft engine, Altitude, Arthur Rowledge, Atmosphere (unit), Australian National Aviation Museum, Aviation fuel, Avro Antelope, Battle of Britain, Blackburn Nautilus, Blackburn Sydney, Brooklands Museum, Carburetor, Centrifugal-type supercharger, Compression ratio, Curtiss D-12, D. Napier & Son, Dornier Do J, Engine knocking, Evaporative cooler, Fairey Aviation Company, Fairey Firefly IIM, Fairey Fleetwing, Fairey Fox, Fairey Hendon, Fairey Prince (V-12), Fairey S.9/30, Fighter aircraft, Fokker C.V, Fokker C.X, Fokker D.XVII, Gasoline, Gloster Gnatsnapper, Gloster TC.33, Gloster TSR.38, Handley Page Heyford, Handley Page Type W, Hawker Fury, Hawker Hart, Hawker Hind, Hawker Nimrod, Heinkel He 112, Heinkel He 70, Henschel Hs 122, Horsepower, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Interwar period, Junkers, Junkers Ju 86, ..., Junkers Ju 87, List of aircraft engines, Messerschmitt, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Miles Kestrel, Miles Master, Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany), Napier Lion, Naturally aspirated engine, Octane, Octane rating, Packard 1A-1500, Parnall Pipit, Poppet valve, Praga E-45, Pusher configuration, Radiator (engine cooling), Reciprocating engine, Renard R.31, Rolls-Royce Goshawk, Rolls-Royce Limited, Rolls-Royce Peregrine, Rolls-Royce Vulture, Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, Royal Air Force Museum London, Saunders A.10, Science Museum, London, Short Gurnard, Short Singapore, Shuttleworth Collection, Speed of the Wind, Supercharger, Supermarine Scapa, Supermarine Southampton, V12 engine, Vickers Type 123, Vickers Type 163, Vickers Vanox, Westland Wizard, World of Wearable Art. Expand index (40 more) »
Air Ministry
The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.
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Airco DH.9
The Airco DH.9 (from de Havilland 9) – also known after 1920 as the de Havilland DH.9 – was a British single-engined biplane bomber developed and deployed during the First World War.
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Aircraft engine
An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.
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Altitude
Altitude or height (sometimes known as depth) is defined based on the context in which it is used (aviation, geometry, geographical survey, sport, atmospheric pressure, and many more).
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Arthur Rowledge
Arthur John Rowledge MBE, FRS (30 July 1876 – 11 December 1957) was an English engineer who designed the Napier Lion aero engine and was a key figure in the development of the Rolls-Royce Merlin.
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Atmosphere (unit)
The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as.
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Australian National Aviation Museum
The Australian National Aviation Museum is an aviation museum at the Moorabbin Airport in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Aviation fuel
Aviation fuel is a specialized type of petroleum-based fuel used to power aircraft.
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Avro Antelope
The Avro 604 Antelope was a British light bomber which was designed and built in the late 1920s to meet a requirement for a light bomber to equip the Royal Air Force, competing against the Hawker Hart and the Fairey Fox II.
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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Blackburn Nautilus
The Blackburn 2F.1 Nautilus was a British single-engine two-seat biplane spotter/fighter built in 1929.
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Blackburn Sydney
The Blackburn R.B.2 Sydney (serial N241) was a long-range maritime patrol flying boat developed for the Royal Air Force in 1930, in response to Air Ministry Specification R.5/27.
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Brooklands Museum
The Brooklands Museum is an air museum in Weybridge, Surrey, England, operated by the independent Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd as a charitable trust and a private limited company incorporated on 12 March 1987; its aim is to conserve, protect and interpret the unique heritage of the Brooklands site.
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Carburetor
A carburetor (American English) or carburettor (British English; see spelling differences) is a device that mixes air and fuel for internal combustion engines in the proper ratio for combustion.
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Centrifugal-type supercharger
A centrifugal supercharger is a specialized type of supercharger that makes use of centrifugal force in order to push additional air into an engine.
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Compression ratio
The static compression ratio of an internal combustion engine or external combustion engine is a value that represents the ratio of the volume of its combustion chamber from its largest capacity to its smallest capacity.
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Curtiss D-12
The Curtiss D-12, sometimes identified with the military designation Curtiss V-1150, was an aircraft engine of 18.8 liter displacement.
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D. Napier & Son
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Dornier Do J
The Dornier Do J Wal ("whale") was a twin-engine German flying boat of the 1920s designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke.
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Engine knocking
Knocking (also knock,, spark knock, pinging or pinking) in spark-ignition internal combustion engines occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder does not result from propagation of the flame front ignited by the spark plug, but one or more pockets of air/fuel mixture explode outside the envelope of the normal combustion front.
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Evaporative cooler
An evaporative cooler (also swamp cooler, desert cooler and wet air cooler) is a device that cools air through the evaporation of water.
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Fairey Aviation Company
The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Lancashire.
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Fairey Firefly IIM
The Fairey Firefly IIM was a British fighter of the 1930s.
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Fairey Fleetwing
The Fairey Fleetwing was a British two-seat, single-engine biplane designed to an Air Ministry contract for carrier-based reconnaissance duties in the late 1920s.
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Fairey Fox
The Fairey Fox was a British light bomber and fighter biplane of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Fairey Hendon
The Fairey Hendon was a British monoplane heavy bomber of the Royal Air Force designed by Fairey Aviation in the late 1920s, which served in small numbers with one Squadron of the RAF between 1936 and 1939.
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Fairey Prince (V-12)
The Fairey P.12 Prince was a British experimental 700 hp (520 kW) class V-12 aircraft engine designed and built by Fairey in the early 1930s.
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Fairey S.9/30
The Fairey S.9/30 was a two-seat, single-engined biplane built to meet an Air Ministry specification for a fleet reconnaissance aircraft.
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Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets.
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Fokker C.V
The Fokker C.V was a Dutch light reconnaissance and bomber biplane aircraft manufactured by Fokker.
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Fokker C.X
The Fokker C.X was a Dutch biplane scout and light bomber designed in 1933.
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Fokker D.XVII
Fokker D.XVII, was a Dutch biplane created by Fokker.
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Gasoline
Gasoline (American English), or petrol (British English), is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in spark-ignited internal combustion engines.
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Gloster Gnatsnapper
The Gloster SS.35 Gnatsnapper was a British naval biplane fighter design of the late 1920s.
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Gloster TC.33
The Gloster TC.33 was a large four-engined biplane designed for troop carrying and medical evacuation in the early 1930s.
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Gloster TSR.38
The Gloster TSR.38 was a single-engined three-seat biplane designed as a naval torpedo/spotter/reconnaissance aircraft in the early 1930s.
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Handley Page Heyford
The Handley Page Heyford was a twin-engine British biplane bomber of the 1930s.
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Handley Page Type W
The Handley Page W.8, W.9 and W.10 were British two- and three-engine medium-range biplane airliners designed and built by Handley Page.
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Hawker Fury
The Hawker Fury was a British biplane fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in the 1930s.
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Hawker Hart
The Hawker Hart was a British two-seater biplane light bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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Hawker Hind
The British Hawker Hind was a Royal Air Force light bomber of the inter-war years produced by Hawker Aircraft.
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Hawker Nimrod
The Hawker Nimrod was a British carrier-based single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter aircraft built in the early 1930s by Hawker Aircraft.
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Heinkel He 112
The Heinkel He 112 is a German fighter aircraft designed by Walter and Siegfried Günter.
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Heinkel He 70
The Heinkel He 70 is a German mail plane and fast passenger aircraft of the 1930s which was also used in auxiliary bomber and aerial reconnaissance roles.
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Henschel Hs 122
The Henschel Hs 122 was a German army cooperation/reconnaissance aircraft of the mid-1930s, radial-engined and with a parasol wing.
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Horsepower
Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power (the rate at which work is done).
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Imperial War Museum Duxford
Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England.
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Interwar period
In the context of the history of the 20th century, the interwar period was the period between the end of the First World War in November 1918 and the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939.
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Junkers
Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (JFM, earlier JCO or JKO in World War I), more commonly Junkers, was a major German aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer.
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Junkers Ju 86
The Junkers Ju 86 was a German monoplane bomber and civilian airliner designed in the early 1930s, and employed by various air forces on both sides during World War II.
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Junkers Ju 87
The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.
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List of aircraft engines
This is an alphabetical list of aircraft engines by manufacturer.
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Messerschmitt
Messerschmitt AG was a German aircraft manufacturing corporation (AG) named after its chief designer Willy Messerschmitt and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, in particular the Bf 109 and Me 262.
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Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force.
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Miles Kestrel
The Miles M.9 Kestrel was a 1930s British single-engined tandem seat monoplane, intended as an advanced trainer.
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Miles Master
The Miles M.9 Master was a British two-seat monoplane advanced trainer built by Miles Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War.
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Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany)
The Ministry of Aviation, December 1938 The Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium), abbreviated RLM, was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933–45).
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Napier Lion
The Napier Lion was a 12-cylinder 'broad arrow' W12 configuration aircraft engine built by D. Napier & Son from 1917 until the 1930s.
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Naturally aspirated engine
A naturally aspirated engine is an internal combustion engine in which oxygen intake depends solely on atmospheric pressure and does not rely on forced induction through a turbocharger or a supercharger.
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Octane
Octane is a hydrocarbon and an alkane with the chemical formula C8H18, and the condensed structural formula CH3(CH2)6CH3.
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Octane rating
An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of the performance of an engine or aviation fuel.
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Packard 1A-1500
The Packard 1A-1500 was an American 12-cylinder liquid-cooled 60-degree Vee piston aircraft engine designed in 1924.
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Parnall Pipit
The Parnall Pipit was a single-engined, single-seat naval fighter designed to an Air Ministry specification in 1927.
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Poppet valve
A poppet valve (also called mushroom valve) is a valve typically used to control the timing and quantity of gas or vapour flow into an engine.
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Praga E-45
The Praga E-45 was a single-engined, single-seat biplane fighter built in Czechoslovakia in the mid-1930s.
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Pusher configuration
In a vehicle with a pusher configuration (as opposed to a tractor configuration), the propeller(s) are mounted behind their respective engine(s).
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Radiator (engine cooling)
Radiators are heat exchangers used for cooling internal combustion engines, mainly in automobiles but also in piston-engined aircraft, railway locomotives, motorcycles, stationary generating plant or any similar use of such an engine.
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Reciprocating engine
A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is typically a heat engine (although there are also pneumatic and hydraulic reciprocating engines) that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion.
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Renard R.31
The Renard R.31 was a Belgian reconnaissance aircraft of the 1930s.
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Rolls-Royce Goshawk
The Rolls-Royce Goshawk was a development of the Rolls-Royce Kestrel that used evaporative or steam cooling.
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Rolls-Royce Limited
Rolls-Royce was a British luxury car and later an aero engine manufacturing business established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
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Rolls-Royce Peregrine
The Rolls-Royce Peregrine was a, liquid-cooled V-12 aero engine designed and built by the British manufacturer Rolls-Royce in the late 1930s.
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Rolls-Royce Vulture
The Rolls-Royce Vulture was a British aero engine developed shortly before World War II that was designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited.
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Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, located in Cosford in Shropshire, is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular.
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Royal Air Force Museum London
The Royal Air Force Museum London, commonly called the RAF Museum, is located on the former Hendon Aerodrome, with five major buildings and hangars dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force.
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Saunders A.10
The Saunders A.10 was a private venture four-gun fighter.
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Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
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Short Gurnard
The Short Gurnard was a single-engined two-seat biplane naval fighter, built in the United Kingdom to an Air Ministry specification in 1929.
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Short Singapore
The Short Singapore was a British multi-engined biplane flying boat built after the First World War.
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Shuttleworth Collection
The Shuttleworth Collection is an aeronautical and automotive museum located at the Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden in Bedfordshire, England.
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Speed of the Wind
Speed of the Wind was a record-breaking car of the 1930s, built for and driven by Captain George Eyston.
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Supercharger
A supercharger is an air compressor that increases the pressure or density of air supplied to an internal combustion engine.
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Supermarine Scapa
The Supermarine Scapa was a British general reconnaissance flying boat built by Supermarine that was used by the Royal Air Force between 1935 and 1939.
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Supermarine Southampton
The Supermarine Southampton was a 1920s British flying boat, one of the most successful flying boats of the interwar period.
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V12 engine
A V12 engine is a V engine with 12 cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of six cylinders each, usually but not always at a 60° angle to each other, with all 12 pistons driving a common crankshaft.
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Vickers Type 123
The Vickers Type 123 was a 1920s British single-seat biplane fighter designed and built by Vickers Limited as a private venture.
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Vickers Type 163
The Vickers Type 163 was a prototype British biplane bomber design of the 1930s, built by Vickers-Armstrong.
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Vickers Vanox
The Vickers Vanox was a British biplane bomber design intended as a successor to the Virginia for the Royal Air Force.
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Westland Wizard
The Westland Wizard was Westland Aircraft's first attempt to produce a monoplane fighter.
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World of Wearable Art
The World of WearableArt & Classic Cars Museum (WOW) is a museum devoted to wearable art and classic cars located in Nelson, New Zealand.
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References
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