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ADC Airdisco

1920s British piston aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	Airdisco
image	File:Airdisco.JPG
caption	ADC Airdisco installed in a DH.51.
engine_type	Air-cooled V-8 piston engine
manufacturer	Aircraft Disposal Company
national_origin	United Kingdom
first_run	1925
major_applications	de Havilland DH.51
Avro 548
developed_into	ADC Cirrus

Avro 548

The ADC Airdisco is a British V-8 aero engine that first ran in 1925.

Design and development

The 'Airdisco' was developed from the Renault 80 hp aero engine by Frank Halford of the Aircraft Disposal Company, the main difference being the use of aluminium cylinder heads. Halford later used one bank of cylinders to create the Cirrus engine.

Applications

Avro 548A
Cierva Parnall Gyroplane
de Havilland DH.51
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5A

Survivors

A de Havilland DH.51 owned and operated by the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, Bedfordshire remains airworthy and is powered by an original ADC Airdisco engine.

Specifications (Airdisco)

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References

Notes

Bibliography

Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

References

Lumsden 2003, p. 55.
[http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth_aircraft_details.asp?ID=15 Shuttleworth Collection - DH.51] Retrieved: 1 September 2009
Lumsden 2003, p.276.

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