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Green C.4

Field	Value
name	C.4
image	GreenC4.JPG
caption	Preserved Green C.4.
engine_type	Piston aero engine
manufacturer	Green Engine Co Ltd
designer	Gustavus Green
first_run
major_applications	Avro Type D

The Green C.4 was a British four-cylinder, water-cooled aero engine that first ran in 1908, it was designed by Gustavus Green and licensed by his Green Engine Co for manufacture by Aster Engineering. The engine was one of two Green designs to win a government prize.

Applications

British Army airship Beta
ASL Valkyrie Type A
Roe II Triplane
Roe III Triplane
Roe IV Triplane
Avro Type D
Avro Baby
Blackburn First Monoplane
Handley Page Type B
Handley Page Type D
Hornstein biplane
Macfie Empress
Martin-Handasyde No.3
Neale VII biplane
Short S.27 (Manufacturer No.s S.26 and S.28)
Sopwith Burgess-Wright
Wells Reo

Engines on display

A preserved Green C.4 engine is on public display at the Royal Air Force Museum London. Another engine is on display at the National Museum of Flight in Scotland..

Specifications (C.4)

and start a new, fully-formatted line with -- |power/weight=0.28 hp/lb (0.46 kW/kg)

References

Notes

Bibliography

Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

References

Gunston 1989, p. 74.
Lumsden 2003, p. 155.

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