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By: 22nd August 2014 at 20:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Single mamba?
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/engine-armstrong-siddeley-mamba/
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-No it was much bigger and 'surrounded' by straight external combustion cans Tony
thanks baz
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The only single engine turboprop I can think of which drove contra props was the Soviet NK12.
I can't spell the manufacturer, it's something like Kuschenkov.
Peter
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Nope, might have been a python out of the wyvern
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley_Python#/image/File:ASPython.jpg
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Not that either Pete - I did wonder whether it was a development engine ??
rgds baz
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley_ASX#/image/File:ArmstrongSiddeleyASX.JPG
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Nope, might have been a python out of the wyvernhttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley_Python#/image/File:ASPython.jpg
Blimey, I forgot that one, probably right.
Pete
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Sounds like an armstrong siddeley Python.
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Python was my first thought Tony and it does look similar,I may be misremembering the prominence of the cans (I thought they were slightly bigger) - the spinner/contraprop layout looks about right !
rgds baz
Edit - it was a pristine unit and I guess maybe the brightness of the cans might have made them more prominent in my memory brain cell : )
By: 22nd August 2014 at 21:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Sounds like a Python, but I didn't think they have one with contra-props fitted. The pics I've seen of their Python and Clyde show them both propless.
Rob
By: 23rd August 2014 at 10:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-When was your visit baz?
They have stuff rotate thru there on a regular basis, deliveries, donations, restoration projects...
By: 23rd August 2014 at 10:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Just a couple of weeks ago RA - just an ad hoc visit and we could only go up on the gallery - so I could not have a close look at it.
Our guide was not a techie and didnt know too much about the stuff in there.
Looked from a distance to be fairly pristine - so maybe had the 'treatment' already !
rgds baz
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By: bazv - 22nd August 2014 at 20:39
I have only done an ad hoc visit to the MBCC and our guide did not know the answer.
In the centre of the Hangar was a large-ish turboprop engine with contraprops (cropped),a large black spinner and parallel (straight) combustion cans - looked fairly old but quite large and I have not managed to identify on the web !
any ideas ?
rgds baz