The ABC Scorpion is a 30 hp (22 kW) two-cylinder aero engine designed by British engineer

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for use in light aircraft. The engine was built by ABC Motors Limited and first ran in 1921.Gunston 1989, p.9.

Variants

;Scorpion I :1923, 30 hp (22 kW) ;Scorpion II :1924, 34 hp (25 kW), increased bore and stroke.

Applications

ABC Robin The ABC Robin was a British single-seat light aircraft designed by A. A. Fletcher in 1929 in aviation, 1929. It was a high-wing, single-seat monoplane of conventional Conventional landing gear, taildragger configuration. The cockpit was fully e ...

* Boulton Paul Phoenix * BFW M.19 * BFW M.23 *

Comper Swift The Comper C.L.A.7 Swift is a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft produced by Comper Aircraft Company Ltd of Hooton Park, Cheshire. Design and development In March 1929 Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Comper left the Royal Air Force and form ...

de Havilland Humming Bird The de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird is a British single-seat, single-engine, low-wing monoplane light aircraft first flown in the 1920s. Design and development In response to the ''Daily Mail'' Light Aeroplane Competition of 1923 de Havilland ...

Farman Moustique The Farman Moustique is a family of French monoplanes built by the Société des Aéroplanes Henry et Maurice Farman at Billancourt. Shortly after the end of World War I, Farman introduced a low powered single seat monoplane for sport and to ...

Hawker Cygnet The Hawker Cygnet was a British ultralight biplane aircraft of the 1920s. Background In 1924, the Royal Aero Club organized a Light Aircraft Competition. £3000 was offered in prizes. An entry was made by Hawker Aircraft, which was a design ...

Heath Parasol The Heath Parasol is an American single or two seat, open-cockpit, parasol winged, homebuilt monoplane. Design and development In 1926, Edward Bayard Heath, a successful American air racer and the owner of an aircraft parts supply business, b ...

Hendy Hobo The Hendy 281 Hobo was a British single-seat light monoplane designed by Basil B. Henderson and built by the Hendy Aircraft Company at Shoreham Airport in 1929. Only one aircraft was built, registered ''G-AAIG'', and first flown in October 1929 ...

Henderson-Glenny Gadfly __NOTOC__ The Henderson-Glenny H.S.F.II Gadfly was a British single-seat low-wing monoplane designed by K.N. Pearson and built by Glenny and Henderson Limited at Byfleet, Surrey, England in 1929. Design and development The Gadfly was a low-wing ...

* Kay Gyroplane *

Luton Minor The Luton L.A.4 Minor was a 1930s United Kingdom, British single-seat high-wing ultra-light aircraft. The prototype was built by the Luton Aircraft, Luton Aircraft Limited, and design plans were later adapted and copies sold for homebuilding. D ...

Mignet HM.14 The Mignet HM.14 ''Flying Flea'' (''Pou du Ciel'' literally "Louse of the Sky" in French) is a single-seat light aircraft first flown in 1933, designed for amateur construction. It was the first of a family of aircraft collectively known as Flyi ...

''Pou-du-Ciel'' *

Parmentier Wee Mite The Parmentier Wee Mite (sometimes Noel Wee Mite) was a British two-seat, parasol monoplane designed by Cecil Noel and first flown in Guernsey in 1933.Ellis 1979, p, 102 Design and development The Wee Mite was a parasol monoplane with a welded s ...

Peyret-Mauboussin PM X The Peyret-Mauboussin PM X, PM 4 or Mauboussin M.10 was a low power, single-seat, high wing cantilever monoplane. Only one was built but it set several records in the under class both as a landplane and a floatplane. Design and development T ...

* RWD 1 * SAI KZ I * Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub * Short Satellite * Snyder Buzzard * Udet U 7 Kolibri *

Wheeler Slymph Wheeler may refer to: Places United States * Wheeler, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Wheeler, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Wheeler, California, an unincorporated community * Wheeler, Illinois, a village * Wheeler, Indiana, a ...

Westland Woodpigeon __NOTOC__ The Westland Woodpigeon was a British two-seat light biplane designed to compete in the 1924 Lympne light aircraft trials. Design and development The Woodpigeon was a conventional wooden biplane powered by a 32 hp (24 kW) ...

Survivors

The only ANEC II ( ''G-EBJO'') flies regularly at the

Shuttleworth Collection The Shuttleworth Collection is a working aeronautical and automotive collection located at the Old Warden Aerodrome, Old Warden in Bedfordshire, England. It is the oldest in the world and one of the most prestigious, due to the variety of old a ...

Old Warden Old Warden is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England, about south-east of the county town of Bedford. The 2011 census shows its population as 328. The Shuttleworth Collection of ...

and is powered by a Scorpion II.

Specifications (Scorpion I)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. * Guttery, T.E. ''The Shuttleworth Collection''. London: Wm. Carling, 1969. * Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Abc Scoprion

Scorpion Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always end ...

1920s aircraft piston engines