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The Bristol Lucifer was a British three-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft. Built in the UK in the 1920s by the
Bristol Aeroplane Company
The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines. Notable a ...
, it produced 100 horsepower (75 kW).
The Lucifer was originally a Cosmos Engineering
Cosmos Engineering was a company that manufactured aero-engines in a factory in Fishponds, Bristol during World War I. Sir Roy Fedden, the company's principal designer, developed the 14-cylinder radial Mercury engine during this period. The co ...
engine, Cosmos being taken over by Bristol in 1920.
Applications
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*Bristol M.1D
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During mid-191 ...
*Bristol Primary Trainer
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Design and development
In 1 ...
* Bryant 1927 monoplane (Dole Race entrant, christened ''Angel of Los Angeles'')
*Handley Page Hamlet
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*LFG V 44
The LFG V 40 and V 44 were one-off, single-engine, two-seat sports monoplanes, identical apart from their engines, built in Germany in 1925.
Design and development
The V 40 and V 44 were all-metal high-wing monoplanes, with thick, straight-edg ...
* NVI F.K.29
*Parnall Peto
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Design and development
Two examples were designed and built by George ...
*Tupolev ANT-2
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Background
Andrei Tupolev saw the practicality of metal used in aircraft con ...
*Udet U 8
The parasol wing, single engine Udet U 8, sometimes referred to as the Limousine, was a three-seat commercial passenger transport designed and built in Germany in 1924. Five were produced and were used by German airlines until about 1928.
Desig ...
Specifications (Lucifer 1)
See also
References
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Bibliography
* Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. . {{Cosmos aeroengines Aircraft air-cooled radial piston enginesLucifer
Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage ...
1910s aircraft piston engines