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Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar

1920s British piston aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	Jaguar
image	Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IV on Hawker Dankok.jpg
caption	Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar IV
engine_type	Radial engine
manufacturer	Armstrong Siddeley
national_origin	United Kingdom
first_run	21 June 1922

The Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar is an aircraft engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. The Jaguar was a petrol-fuelled air-cooled 14-cylinder two-row radial engine design. The Jaguar III was first used in 1923, followed in 1925 by the Jaguar IV and in 1927 by the Jaguar VI. In 1925 the Jaguar became the first production aero engine incorporating a geared supercharger.

Design and development

The supercharger rotor and its straight blades

The Jaguar was developed from the Royal Aircraft Factory RAF.8 design proposal of 1916. The RAF.8 was the work of a design team led by F.M. Green, and incorporated the findings of research into aluminium air-cooled cylinders by Samuel D. Heron and Professor A. H. Gibson. Disillusioned by political and press criticism of the Royal Air Factory, Green and his design team, including Heron, left the Factory in January 1917 and took up positions with the Siddeley-Deasy company. There they were required by official policy to suspend work on the RAF.8 and focus efforts to get the unreliable Siddeley Puma into effective service, an engine that had been ordered in large numbers despite a lack of testing. As a result, the RAF.8 design, then known as the Jaguar, was not run until 21 June 1922.

Initial performance was not as expected; as a result the stroke was increased to 5.5 in (139.7 mm) on all variants after the Jaguar I. By that time, the engine had been fitted with a gear-driven supercharger. Throughout its career the Jaguar suffered from vibration due to the lack of a crankshaft centre bearing. The most powerful version of the engine, the Jaguar VIC, produced a maximum of 490 hp (365 kW) on takeoff at 1,950 rpm and weighed 910 lb (413 kg). The later Lynx was designed using one row of Jaguar cylinders.

Variants

;Jaguar I :1922, 300 hp. ;Jaguar II :1923, 385 hp, increased stroke, capacity 1,512 cu in (24.8 L). ;Jaguar III :1923, 385 hp. ;Jaguar IIIA :1923, 380 hp. ;Jaguar IV :1925, 385 hp, twin carburettors ;Jaguar IVA :420 hp, Geared propeller drive. ;Jaguar IVC :1928, 400 hp, revised connecting rod design, enclosed valve gear. ;Jaguar IV(S) :1925, 365 hp, fully supercharged. ;Jaguar V :1928. ;Jaguar VI :1927. ;Jaguar VI(S) :1928, supercharged version of Jaguar VI. ;Jaguar VIC :1927, 470 hp, geared propeller drive version of Jaguar VI. ;Jaguar VID :1928. ;Jaguar VIIA :1929, 400 hp, fully supercharged. ;Jaguar VIII :1928, 405 hp, fully supercharged, geared propeller drive

Applications

Airco DH.4
Airco DH.9
Armstrong Whitworth Ajax
Armstrong Whitworth Aries
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
Armstrong Whitworth Atlas
Armstrong Whitworth Siskin
Armstrong Whitworth Starling
Armstrong Whitworth Wolf
Avro 642
Blackburn Airedale
Blackburn C.A.15C
Blackburn Turcock
Boulton Paul P.71
De Havilland Dormouse
De Havilland DH.50
De Havilland Giant Moth
De Havilland Hyena
Fairey Ferret
Fairey Flycatcher
Fokker C.V
Fokker D.XVI
Gloster Gnatsnapper
Gloster Grebe
Handley Page Hampstead
Hawker Danecock
Hawker Hawfinch
Hawker Hoopoe
Hawker Woodcock
Larkin Lascowl
Martinsyde ADC 1
Nieuport Nighthawk
Parnall Plover
RAAF Experimental Section Warrigal II
Supermarine Air Yacht
Supermarine Nanok
Supermarine Southampton
Svenska Aero Jaktfalken (SA-11)
Vickers Vellore
Vickers Vespa
Vickers Viastra
Vickers Vimy Trainer (Type 156)
Westland Wapiti
Westland Weasel

Engines on display

A preserved Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar is on public display at the Science Museum (London).

Specifications (Jaguar I)

Sectioned Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar on display at the [[Science Museum (London)

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References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

References

"World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines – 5th edition" by [[Bill Gunston]], Sutton Publishing, 2006. p.13
"Development of the Aircraft Supercharger". Flightglobal Archive.

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