Large/old turboprop engine MBCC Cosford

Just a couple of weeks ago RA – just an ad hoc visit and we could only go up on the gallery – so I could not have a close look at it.
Our guide was not a techie and didnt know too much about the stuff in there.
Looked from a distance to be fairly pristine – so maybe had the ‘treatment’ already !

rgds baz

When was your visit baz?
They have stuff rotate thru there on a regular basis, deliveries, donations, restoration projects…

Sounds like a Python, but I didn’t think they have one with contra-props fitted. The pics I’ve seen of their Python and Clyde show them both propless.

Rob

Python was my first thought Tony and it does look similar,I may be misremembering the prominence of the cans (I thought they were slightly bigger) – the spinner/contraprop layout looks about right !

rgds baz

Edit – it was a pristine unit and I guess maybe the brightness of the cans might have made them more prominent in my memory brain cell : )

Sounds like an armstrong siddeley Python.

Nope, might have been a python out of the wyvern

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley_Python#/image/File:ASPython.jpg

Blimey, I forgot that one, probably right.

Pete

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley_ASX#/image/File:ArmstrongSiddeleyASX.JPG

Not that either Pete – I did wonder whether it was a development engine ??

rgds baz

Nope, might have been a python out of the wyvern

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley_Python#/image/File:ASPython.jpg

The only single engine turboprop I can think of which drove contra props was the Soviet NK12.
I can’t spell the manufacturer, it’s something like Kuschenkov.

Peter

No it was much bigger and ‘surrounded’ by straight external combustion cans Tony

thanks baz

Single mamba?

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/engine-armstrong-siddeley-mamba/