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Armstrong Siddeley Motors minutes of a meeting to review the Python position

Catalogue reference: PA1716/5/5/115

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This record is a file about the Armstrong Siddeley Motors minutes of a meeting to review the Python position dating from 27 February 1952.

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Reference
PA1716/5/5/115
Title
Armstrong Siddeley Motors minutes of a meeting to review the Python position
Date
27 February 1952
Description

1 Development position: 63 hours running have been carried out , making a total of 10,119 hours. P.105 has been carrying out tests on the widened propeller shaft gear and two 10-hour tests have been carried out successfully, one at 2000 HP and one at 2500 HP. The condition of the gear at the end of these tests was satisfactory and a similar gear will be submitted to a 25-hour category test in order to obtain flight clearance 2 1 Second row blade failure 2 2 Acceleration control 3 Reverse switch 4 Oil pump failures 5 Gun heating on the Wyvern 6 Idling jet pipe temperature in the Wyvern 7 Propeller failure 8 PCU drive failure 9 Jet pipe temperature control 10 C.7 booster coils 11 Diaphragm material

Held by
Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Former department reference
ASM Python/compressor failure
Language
English
Physical description
1 Item
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/5aba4e5d-f68b-412e-8ec1-cafb20f2e010/

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Armstrong Siddeley Motors minutes of a meeting to review the Python position