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Compound Diesel Engines for Aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. E. Chatterton
E. E. Chatterton*
Affiliation:
Piston Engine Division, D. Napier & Son Ltd.
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The association of a gas turbine with a piston engine is by no means a recent conception. As early as 1924 a Napier Lion Series V engine was equipped with a turbine in the manner shown in Fig. 1, the exhaust gases being fed into the turbine to provide all the power to drive the engine supercharger.

At a later date during the 1939-1945 War, many engines were installed in operational aircraft fitted with “turbo-chargers” of the type shown in Fig. 2, in which an exhaust activated turbine drives a subsidiary blower boosting the air intake of the normal engine supercharger.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 525 , September 1954 , pp. 613 - 633
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1954

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