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Aviation History
1939
1939 - 1536.PDF
MAY 18, 1939 ff0sm 5"' MILITARY POWER Some of Our More Recent Engines for the Royal Air Force An outstandingly successful engine for general reconnaissance and training duties is the 375 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah X, shown above. •'3 The new Bristol Taurus II fourteen-cylinder sleeve-valve engine (left), although measuring only 46Jin. in diameter, gives a maximum output of 1,065 h-P- at 5,000ft. A number of new Service machines will be fitted with Taurus engines. Above is a Flight photograph of the liquid-cooled Rolls- Royce Merlin III fitted with a Rotol airscrew hub. The 1,000 h.p. Napier-Halford Dagger VIII (below) is of the type installed in the Hereford bomber. Flight - " Flight " photograph On the left is the Cirrus Major, an engine used in some of the R.A.F. Magister trainers, and above is the D.H. Gipsyking (Gipsy Twelve) as installed in the Don
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