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Bristol Draco

1930s British piston aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	Draco
engine_type	Piston aircraft engine
manufacturer	Bristol Aeroplane Company
first_run	1935
major_applications	Westland Wapiti (testbed only)

The Bristol Draco was an air-cooled nine-cylinder radial engine from the British manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was essentially a version of their famous Pegasus converted to use a fuel injection system.

The carburettor had only a simple butterfly valve, while two injection pumps supplied the cylinders with fuel, one handling four cylinders and the other, five. Injection was into the manifold before they split into the two intake valves for each cylinder. The engine was flight-tested in a Westland Wapiti. Since the expenditure did not bring a considerable improvement, development was halted.

Specifications (Draco)

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References

Notes

Bibliography

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

References

Lumsden 2003, p.114.

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