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40 relations: Aero-engined car, Aircraft records, Arthur Rowledge, Arthur Rubbra, Blue Bird K3, Blue Bird K4, Bluebird K7, Campbell-Railton Blue Bird, Cyril Lovesey, Ernest Hives, 1st Baron Hives, Fiat AS.6, George Stainforth, Henry Royce, Hiduminium, High Speed Flight RAF, Hispano-Suiza 18R, Hyper engine, Land speed record, List of Air Ministry specifications, List of aircraft engines, Lucy, Lady Houston, Miss Britain III, Miss England II, Miss England III, Napier Lion, Nieuport-Delage NiD 450, Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines, Rolls-Royce Buzzard, Rolls-Royce Griffon, Rolls-Royce Limited, Royal Air Force Museum London, Schneider Trophy, Schneider Trophy aircraft, Silver Bullet (car), Stewart Tresilian, Supermarine S.5, Supermarine S.6, Supermarine S.6B, Thunderbolt (car), 1931 in the United Kingdom.
Aero-engined car
An aero-engined car is an automobile powered by an engine designed for aircraft use.
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Aircraft records
This article gives yearly aviation records under 5 headings: airspeed, range, ceiling, gross take-off weight, and engine power.
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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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Arthur Rubbra
Arthur Alexander Cecil Rubbra CBE (29 October 1903 – 24 November 1982) was an English engineer who designed many of Rolls-Royce's successful aero engines.
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Blue Bird K3
Blue Bird K3 is a hydroplane powerboat commissioned in 1937 by Sir Malcolm Campbell, to rival the Americans' efforts in the fight for the world water speed record.
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Blue Bird K4
Blue Bird K4 was a powerboat commissioned in 1939 by Sir Malcolm Campbell, to rival the Americans' efforts in the fight for the world water speed record.
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Bluebird K7
Bluebird K7 is a jet engined hydroplane with which Britain's Donald Campbell set seven world water speed records (WSR) during the later half of the 1950s and the 1960s.
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Campbell-Railton Blue Bird
The Campbell-Railton Blue Bird was Sir Malcolm Campbell's final land speed record car.
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Cyril Lovesey
Alfred Cyril Lovesey CBE, AFRAeS, was an English engineer who was a key figure in the development of the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine.
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Ernest Hives, 1st Baron Hives
Ernest Walter Hives, 1st Baron Hives (21 April 1886 – 24 April 1965), was the one-time head of the Rolls-Royce Aero Engine division and chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd.
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Fiat AS.6
The Fiat AS.6 was an unusual Italian 24-cylinder, liquid-cooled V configured aircraft racing engine designed and built in the late-1920s by Fiat especially for the Schneider Trophy air races, but development and running problems meant that it was never able to compete.
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George Stainforth
Wing Commander George Hedley Stainforth AFC RAF (1899 - 27 September 1942) was a British Royal Air Force pilot and the first man to exceed 400 miles per hour.
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Henry Royce
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was an English engineer and car designer who, with Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, founded the Rolls-Royce company.
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Hiduminium
The Hiduminium alloys or R.R. alloys are a series of high-strength, high-temperature aluminium alloys, developed for aircraft use by Rolls-Royce ("RR") before World War II.
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High Speed Flight RAF
The RAF High Speed Flight, sometimes known as 'The Flight', was a small flight of the Royal Air Force (RAF) formed for the purpose of competing in the Schneider Trophy contest for racing seaplanes during the 1920s.
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Hispano-Suiza 18R
The Hispano-Suiza 18R was an eighteen cylinder high performance water-cooled piston engine, in an 80° W or broad arrow layout, for use in racing aircraft, built in France during the latter half of the 1920s.
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Hyper engine
The hyper engine was a 1930s study project by the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to develop a high-performance aircraft engine that would be equal to or better than the aircraft and engines then under development in Europe.
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Land speed record
The land speed record (or absolute land speed record) is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land.
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List of Air Ministry specifications
This is a partial list of the British Air Ministry (AM) specifications for aircraft.
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List of aircraft engines
This is an alphabetical list of aircraft engines by manufacturer.
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Lucy, Lady Houston
Lucy, Lady Houston, DBE (8 April 1857 – 29 December 1936), born Fanny Lucy Radmall, was a British philanthropist, political activist, and suffragette.
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Miss Britain III
Miss Britain III is a racing power boat designed and built by Hubert Scott-Paine, a British aircraft and boat designer.
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Miss England II
Miss England II was the name of the second of a series of speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Miss England III
Miss England III was the name of the last of a series of speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s.
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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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Nieuport-Delage NiD 450
The Nieuport-Delage NiD 450 was a French racing floatplane, originally intended to compete for the 1929 Schneider Trophy.
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Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines
Rolls-Royce produced a range of piston engine types for aircraft use in the first half of the 20th Century.
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Rolls-Royce Buzzard
The Rolls-Royce Buzzard (also referred to as the H engine) was a British piston aero engine of capacity that produced about.
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Rolls-Royce Griffon
The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a British 37-litre (2,240 cu in) capacity, 60-degree V-12, liquid-cooled aero engine designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited.
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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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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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Schneider Trophy
The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider, commonly called the Schneider Trophy or Schneider Prize (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Schneider Cup, a different prize), was a trophy awarded annually (and later, biannually) to the winner of a race for seaplanes and flying boats.
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Schneider Trophy aircraft
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Silver Bullet (car)
The Sunbeam Silver Bullet was the last attempt at the land speed record by Sunbeam of Wolverhampton.
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Stewart Tresilian
Stewart Tresilian (9 January 1904 – 20 May 1962) was a British mechanical engineer, who played a significant role in the early development of British aero engines during World War II.
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Supermarine S.5
The Supermarine S.5 was a 1920s British single-engined single-seat racing seaplane built by Supermarine.
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Supermarine S.6
The Supermarine S.6 is a 1920s British single-engined single-seat racing seaplane built by Supermarine.
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Supermarine S.6B
The Supermarine S.6B is a British racing seaplane developed by R.J. Mitchell for the Supermarine company to take part in the Schneider Trophy competition of 1931.
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Thunderbolt (car)
Thunderbolt was a British Land Speed Record holder of the 1930s, driven by Captain George E.T. Eyston.
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1931 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1931 in the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_R
