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Bristol Lucifer

1910s British piston aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	Lucifer
image	LFG V 44.JPG
caption	Bristol Lucifer, installed in LFG V 44 D-669
engine_type	Piston aero engine
manufacturer	Bristol Aeroplane Company
first_run	1919
major_applications	Avro 504

The Bristol Lucifer is a British three-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft. Built in the UK in the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, it produced 100 horsepower (75 kW).

The Lucifer was originally a Cosmos Engineering engine, Cosmos being taken over by Bristol in 1920.

Applications

Albatros L 69
Avro 504
Boulton Paul P.10
Bristol M.1D
Bristol Primary Trainer
Bryant 1927 monoplane (Dole Race entrant, christened Angel of Los Angeles)
Handley Page Hamlet
LFG V 44
NVI F.K.29
Parnall Peto
Tupolev ANT-2
Udet U 8

Specifications (Lucifer 1)

Bristol Lucifer, view of sectioned cylinder.

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References

Notes

Bibliography

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

References

Lumsden 2003, p. 93.

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