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Report from Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department (Flight Section) to...

Catalogue reference: PA1716/4/5/21

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Reference
PA1716/4/5/21
Title
Report from Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department (Flight Section) to Mr Saxton:'Corrigendum' Flight performance of a Series 6 Sapphire with reduced number of compressor stator blades. Sa.100 in Lancastrian aircraft
Date
18 February 1953
Description

Contract No.6/Eng/5406/CB.12(b). In the above report issued by this section on 2 February 1953, reference was made on several occasions of choking of the last few stages of the compressor. When ever this statement occurs in this report it should be amended to give the sense that the compressor choking occurs in the first few (or low pressure) stages of the compressor

Held by
Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Former department reference
Bitteswell Flight section/memos/reports
Language
English
Physical description
1 Item
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/a5955209-ad69-44ce-8826-1d8125ae86d4/

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Report from Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department (Flight Section) to Mr Saxton:'Corrigendum' Flight performance of a Series 6 Sapphire with reduced number of compressor stator blades. Sa.100 in Lancastrian aircraft