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Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department: Turbine development tests on AS.Sapphire...

Catalogue reference: PA1716/5/3/11

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Reference
PA1716/5/3/11
Title
Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department: Turbine development tests on AS.Sapphire Series 8 Engine No.Sa.803 Build 12 - 2-hour endurance test to determine the effect of cooled two-piece turbine stator
Date
7 March 1957
Description

AS Sapphire 8 series engines have been subject to considerable trouble with turbine stator distortion and shrinkage which causes turbine rotor tip rolls

Held by
Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Former department reference
AS Sapphire/seies 8
Language
English
Physical description
1 Item
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/d4ae25cf-ee1d-4285-9d1c-0ebe21f55077/

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Armstrong Siddeley Motors Experimental Department: Turbine development tests on AS.Sapphire Series 8 Engine No.Sa.803 Build 12 - 2-hour endurance test to determine the effect of cooled two-piece turbine stator