Metropolitan-Vickers F.2
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The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor. It was an extremely advanced design for the era, using a nine-stage axial
Beryl engine preserved at Solent Sky Museum
On display at the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust (Derby)
Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire
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The Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire is a British turbojet engine that was produced by Armstrong Siddeley in the 1950s. It was the ultimate development of work that had started as the Metrovick F.2 in 1940
Metropolitan-Vickers F.2
…Metrovick) to Armstrong Siddeley when Metrovick left the gas turbine business. Armstrong Siddeley produced a larger version as the successful Sapphire. Alan Arnold Griffith published a seminal paper in 1926, An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, that for the first time clearly demonstrated that a…
Preserved Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire at the Midland Air Museum