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Summary: Bristol Centaurus sleeve valve aero engine aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Bristol, Centaurus, sleeve, valve, aero, engine ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. Bristol Centaurus sleeve-valve aero engine - The Centaurus was the ultimate development of Bristol Engine Company's series of sleeve valve radial aircraft engines, with twice the displacement of a Rolls-Royce Merlin. It was a massive 18-cylinder two-row design that eventually delivered over three thousand HP. Highly successful, it powered a number of war-birds, and later, civilian aircraft.
Other wartime, or just-post-wartime, uses include the Bristol Brigand (and Buckmaster), Hawker Tempest and Fury/Sea-Fury, and the Blackburn Firebrand. The Bristol Centaurus engine also saw post-war use in civilian airliners.
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