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Armstrong Siddeley Mamba, the Glossary

The Armstrong Siddeley Mamba was a British turboprop engine produced by Armstrong Siddeley in the late 1940s and 1950s, producing around 1,500 effective horsepower (1,100 kW).^[1]

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1940s turboprop engines
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Anti-submarine weapon

An anti-submarine weapon (ASW) is any one of a number of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel or reduce its capability as a weapon of war.

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Armstrong Siddeley

Armstrong Siddeley was a British engineering group that operated during the first half of the 20th century. Armstrong Siddeley Mamba and Armstrong Siddeley are Armstrong Siddeley aircraft engines.

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The Armstrong Siddeley ASA.1 Adder was an early British turbojet engine developed by the Armstrong Siddeley company and first run in November 1948. Armstrong Siddeley Mamba and Armstrong Siddeley Adder are Armstrong Siddeley aircraft engines.

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Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba

The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a turboprop engine design developed in the late 1940s of around. Armstrong Siddeley Mamba and Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba are 1940s turboprop engines and Armstrong Siddeley aircraft engines.

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Armstrong Whitworth Apollo

The Armstrong Whitworth AW.55 Apollo was a 1940s British four-engine turboprop airliner built by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton.

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Aviation Heritage Museum (Western Australia)

The Aviation Heritage Museum is a museum located in the Perth suburb of Bull Creek in Western Australia.

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Avro Athena

The Avro 701 Athena is a British advanced trainer aircraft built by Avro in the late 1940s.

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Axial compressor

An axial compressor is a gas compressor that can continuously pressurize gases.

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Boulton Paul Balliol

The Boulton Paul Balliol and Sea Balliol are monoplane advanced trainer aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Boulton Paul Aircraft.

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Bréguet 960 Vultur

The Bréguet Br 960 Vultur was a prototype two-seat carrier-based attack and anti-submarine aircraft (ASW) built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the early 1950s.

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Combustion chamber

A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned.

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Contra-rotating propellers

Aircraft equipped with contra-rotating propellers (CRP) coaxial contra-rotating propellers, or high-speed propellers, apply the maximum power of usually a single piston engine or turboprop engine to drive a pair of coaxial propellers in contra-rotation.

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Coventry Airport

Coventry Airport is located south-southeast of Coventry city centre, in the village of Baginton, Warwickshire, England.

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Douglas C-47 Skytrain

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.

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Douglas DC-3

The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II.

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East Midlands Airport

East Midlands Airport is an international airport in the East Midlands of England, close to Castle Donington in northwestern Leicestershire, between Loughborough, Derby and Nottingham; Leicester is to the south and Lincoln northeast.

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EFW N-20

The EFW N-20 Aiguillon (in) was Switzerland's first indigenous jet fighter project.

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Epicyclic gearing

An epicyclic gear train (also known as a planetary gearset) is a gear reduction assembly consisting of two gears mounted so that the center of one gear (the "planet") revolves around the center of the other (the "sun").

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Fairey Gannet

The Fairey Gannet is a carrier-borne aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer the Fairey Aviation Company.

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Flieger Flab Museum

The Flieger Flab Museum (English: Swiss Air Force Museum) is located in the Canton of Zurich in Dübendorf on the grounds of Dübendorf Air Base.

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Flight International

Flight International is a monthly magazine focused on aerospace.

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Handley Page Marathon

The Handley Page (Reading) H.P.R.1 Marathon was a British four-engined civil transport aircraft, capable of seating up to 20 passengers.

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Horsepower

Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors.

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JP-4

JP-4, or JP4 (for "Jet Propellant") was a jet fuel, specified in 1951 by the United States Department of Defense (MIL-DTL-5624).

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List of aircraft engines

This is an alphabetical list of aircraft engines by manufacturer.

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Midland Air Museum

The Midland Air Museum (MAM) is situated just outside the village of Baginton in Warwickshire, England, and is adjacent to Coventry Airport.

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Ministry of Supply

The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed on 1 August 1939 by the Ministry of Supply Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 38) to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.

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Royal Air Force Museum Midlands

The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, located in Cosford in Shropshire, is a free museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Short Seamew

The Short SB.6 Seamew was a British aircraft designed in 1951 by David Keith-Lucas of Shorts as a lightweight anti-submarine platform to replace the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA)'s Grumman Avenger AS 4 with the Reserve branch of the service.

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Short Sturgeon

The Short Sturgeon was a planned British carrier-borne reconnaissance bomber whose development began during Second World War with the S.6/43 requirement for a high-performance torpedo bomber, which was later refined into the S.11/43 requirement which was won by the Sturgeon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Siddeley_Mamba

Also known as Armstrong Siddeley A.S.Ma.3 Mamba, Armstrong Siddeley ASM.3 Mamba, Armstrong Siddeley ASMa. Mamba, Armstrong-Siddeley Mamba, Armstrong-Siddeley Single Mamba, Sulzer Swiss Mamba.

Armstrong Siddeley Mamba, the Glossary

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1940s turboprop engines

Armstrong Siddeley aircraft engines

Axial-compressor gas turbine engines

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