Do Any Bristol Siddeley BS100 Engines survive?

cheers for that 🙂

i wonder if any bits of the mockup or part of the fuselage that were build still remain anywhere…

Plenum chamber burning was a 1943 Whittle concept in W2/700 to be flown in Miles M.52. His Project man at Power Jets was Ray Holl, who stayed on the case at NGTE, becoming the MoA Project Officer through the chop. Became seniormost MoA engine man, DG/Eng.RD. BSEL’s R&D workload, B.Ol.22B+593+BS.100 was seen by MoA as intolerable by Oct.64, prejudicing all 3. Hence RR’s attempt to graft their FRG V/STOL deflected-nozzles (RB153/193) as Twin Spey. BS.100 was dripped on monthly extensions of its ITP, with fuss to adjust its “irrevocable” £ commitment, which is serpent-speak for “we expect to chop it pronto”. That lapsed with Roy Jenkins’ success in January,1965 in putting Spey (which RAF did not want) in Option F-4M and F-111K (to be)Merlin S.1/T.2. Healey would have to choose between full-speed-ahead BS.100…or P.1154(RAF) chop. He asked RAF to define a sortie both supersonic+V/STOL. Nonesuch (then or with F-35B), whereupon the solution was Jenkinsed, of subsonic, close-up V/STOL + transonic Strike, to be Harrier GR.1+F-4M FGR.2. Getting those 2 “low risk”, derivative engines right was traumatic. Mighty BS.100 would have been mighty expensive and late.

One thing I have been curious for a while about is how the variable area front nozzles worked… if anyone could enlighten me id be most grateful…

IIRC, Rolls Royce Heritage might have one too… but i might be wrong…

Zeb

thanks 🙂

looked quite ingenious, pity it never flew 🙁

There is one at Yeovilton, I’ve uploaded some photographs to : http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/philip.morten/20080420?authkey=oKqrI2VWvyM&feat=directlink