The Bristol Jupiter was a British nine-cylinder single-row piston

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built by the

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. Originally designed late in

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and known as the Cosmos Jupiter, a lengthy series of upgrades and developments turned it into one of the finest engines of its era. The Jupiter was widely used on many aircraft designs during the 1920s and 1930s. Thousands of Jupiters of all versions were produced, both by Bristol and abroad under licence. A turbo-supercharged version of the Jupiter known as the Orion suffered development problems and only a small number were produced. The "Orion" name was later re-used by Bristol for an unrelated

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engine.

Design and development

The Jupiter was designed during

Roy Fedden Sir Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden MBE, FRAeS (6 June 1885 – 21 November 1973) was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Company's successful piston aircraft engine designs. Early life Fedden was born in the Bristol area to fairly wealthy ...

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and later

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 ...

. The first Jupiter was completed by Brazil Straker in 1918 and featured three carburettors, each one feeding three of the engine's nine cylinders via a spiral deflector housed inside the induction chamber. During the rapid downscaling of military spending after the war, Cosmos Engineering became

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in 1920, and was eventually purchased by the

on the strengths of the Jupiter design and the encouragement of the

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. The engine matured into one of the most reliable on the market. It was the first air-cooled engine to pass the Air Ministry full-throttle test, the first to be equipped with automatic boost control, and the first to be fitted to airliners. The Jupiter was fairly standard in design, but featured four valves per cylinder, which was uncommon at the time. The

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were machined from steel forgings, and the cast

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s were later replaced with aluminium alloy following studies by the

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. In 1927, a change was made to move to a forged head design due to the rejection rate of the castings. The Jupiter VII introduced a mechanically-driven supercharger to the design, and the Jupiter VIII was the first to be fitted with reduction gears. In 1925, Fedden started designing a replacement for the Jupiter. Using a shorter stroke to increase the

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(rpm), and including a

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for added power, resulted in the

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of 1927. Applying the same techniques to the original Jupiter-sized engine in 1927 resulted in the

Bristol Pegasus The Bristol Pegasus is a British nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial aero engine. Designed by Roy Fedden of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, it was used to power both civil and military aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s. Developed from t ...

. Neither engine would fully replace the Jupiter for a few years. In 1926 a Jupiter-engined

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with the

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G-EBGG completed an endurance flight of , during which the Jupiter ran for a total of 225 hours and 54 minutes without part failure or replacement.

Licensed production

The Jupiter saw widespread use in licensed versions, with fourteen countries eventually producing the engine. In France, Gnome-Rhone produced a version known as the Gnome-Rhône 9 Jupiter that was used in several local civilian designs, as well as achieving some export success.

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took out a licence in Germany and produced several versions of increasing power, eventually resulting in the

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Fafnir, which saw use in German wartime aircraft. In Japan, the Jupiter was license-built from 1924 by Nakajima, forming the basis of its own subsequent radial aero-engine design, the Nakajima Ha-1 Kotobuki. It was produced in Poland as the PZL Bristol Jupiter, in Italy as the Alfa Romeo 126-RC35, and in

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. The most produced version was in the

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, where its

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M-22 version powered the initial Type 4 version of the

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(55 units produced). Type 4 Polikarpovs can be identified by their lack of exhaust stubs, rounded NACA cowling and lack of cowling shutters, features which were introduced on the

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powered Type 5 and later variants (total production 4,500+ units). Production started in 1918 and ceased in 1930.

Variants

The Jupiter was produced in many variants, one of which was the Bristol Orion of 1926.

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problems with this turbo-supercharged engine caused the project to be abandoned after only nine engines had been built. ;Brazil Straker (Cosmos) Jupiter I :(1918) ; only two engines assembled. ;Cosmos Jupiter II :(1918) ; a single engine assembled. ;Bristol Jupiter II :(1923) . ;Bristol Jupiter III :(1923) . BristolJupiter

;Bristol Jupiter IV :(1926) ; fitted with variable valve timing and a Bristol Triplex carburettor. ;Bristol Jupiter V :(1925) . ;Bristol Jupiter VI :(1927) ; produced in both high- (6.3:1) and low- (5.3:1)

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versions. ;Bristol Jupiter VIA :(1927) ; civil version of Jupiter VI. ;Bristol Jupiter VIFH :(1932) ; version of Jupiter VI equipped with gas starter motor. ;Bristol Jupiter VIFL :(1932) ; version of Jupiter VI with compression ratio of 5.15:1. ;Bristol Jupiter VIFM :(1932) ; version of Jupiter VI with compression ratio of 5.3:1. ;Bristol Jupiter VIFS :(1932) ; version of Jupiter VI with compression ratio of 6.3:1. ;Bristol Jupiter VII :(1928) ; fitted with supercharger, with compression ratio of 5.3:1; also manufactured by Gnome-Rhone as the 9ASB. ;Bristol Jupiter VIIF :(1929) ; version of Jupiter VII with forged cylinder heads. Bristol Jupiter VIIIF 2

;Bristol Jupiter VIIFP :(1930) ; version of Jupiter VII with pressure feed lubrication to wrist-pins. ;Bristol Jupiter VIII :(1929) ; first version with propeller reduction gearing; compression ratio 6.3:1. ;Bristol Jupiter VIIIF :(1929) ; version of Jupiter VIII with forged cylinder heads and lowered compression ratio (5.8:1). ;Bristol Jupiter VIIIFP :(1929) ; version of Jupiter VIII with pressure feed lubrication (

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at this stage in development was only 150 hours due to multiple failures). ;Bristol Jupiter IX : ; compression ratio 5.3:1. ;Bristol Jupiter IXF : ; version of Jupiter IX with forged cylinder heads ;Bristol Jupiter X : ; compression ratio 5.3:1. ;Bristol Jupiter XF : ; version of Jupiter X with forged cylinder heads ;Bristol Jupiter XFA : ;Bristol Jupiter XFAM : ;Bristol Jupiter XFBM : ;Bristol Jupiter XFS :Fully supercharged. ;Bristol Jupiter XI :Compression ratio 5.15:1. ;Bristol Jupiter XIF : ; compression ratio 5.15:1. ;Bristol Jupiter XIFA : ; version of Jupiter XIF with 0.656:1 propeller gear reduction ratio ;Bristol Jupiter XIFP : ; version of Jupiter XIF with pressure feed lubrication. ;Bristol Orion I :(1926) Jupiter III, turbo-supercharged, abandoned programme. ;Gnome-Rhône 9A Jupiter:French licence production primarily of 9A, 9Aa, 9Ab, 9Ac, 9Akx and 9Ad variants. ;

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: Siemens-Halske took out a licence in Germany and produced several versions of increasing power, eventually resulting in the Bramo 323 Fafnir, which saw use in wartime models. ; Nakajima Ha-1 Kotobuki: In Japan, the Jupiter was licence-built from 1924 by Nakajima. ;PZL Bristol Jupiter: Polish production. ;

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: Italian licence production, . ; Alfa 126 R.C.35: Alfa Romeo developed variant ;Walter Jupiter: Licence production in Czechoslovakia by Walter Engines ;Shvetsov M-22: The most produced version; manufactured in the

. ;IAM 9AD Jupiter: Licence production of the Gnome-Rhône 9A in

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;SABCA Jupiter: license production in

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(''Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques'') ;Piaggio-Jupiter: License production by Piaggio

Applications

The Jupiter is probably best known for powering the

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airliners, which flew the London-Paris route in the 1930s. Other civilian uses included the

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and

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, the

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and the huge

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flying boat, which used no less than twelve engines. Military uses were less common, but included the parent company's

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, as well as the

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and

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. It was also found in prototypes around the world, from Japan to Sweden. By 1929 the Bristol Jupiter had flown in 262 different aircraft types, ''Note:''

Cosmos Jupiter

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Bristol Jupiter

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* Airco DH.9 *

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* Avia BH-25 * Avia BH-33E *

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* Blériot-SPAD 51 *

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Boulton & Paul Bugle The Boulton & Paul Bugle was a heavy bomber designed and produced by the British manufacturing group Boulton & Paul. There were two variants; the Bugle I with 400 hp (298 kW) Bristol Jupiter II radial engines (five built) and the N ...

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* Blackburn Nile *

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Bristol Badminton __NOTOC__ The Bristol Type 99 Badminton was a 1920s British single-seat racing biplane built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and designed by F.S. Barnwell.Jackson 1973, page 308 Design and development The Badminton was a single-seat single- ...

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* Bristol Beaver *

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* Bristol Brandon *

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* Bristol Type 72 * Bristol Type 75 * Bristol Type 76 * Bristol Type 89 *

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* de Havilland Dingo *

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* de Havilland Survey *

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A *

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* Gloster Gambet *

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* Gloster Goldfinch *

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* Gourdou-Leseurre LGL.32 * Handley Page Clive * Handley Page Hampstead *

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Handley Page Hinaidi The Handley Page Hinaidi was one of two twin-engine bombers built by Handley Page that served with the Royal Air Force between 1925 and 1935. The aircraft was developed from the Handley Page Hyderabad and named after Hinaidi, an RAF station in ...

* Handley Page HP.12 *

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Saunders Medina __NOTOC__ The Saunders A.4 Medina was a British flying boat built by S.E. Saunders at East Cowes, Isle of Wight. Development The Medina was built for the Air Council between 1925 and 1926 and was a plywood-covered wooden flying boat powered b ...

Saunders Severn The Saunders Severn was a three-engined biplane flying boat intended for maritime patrol duties. It performed well but was fragile and unreliable. Only one was built. Design and development The Saunders A.7 Severn was the last flying boat des ...

Short Calcutta The Short Calcutta or S.8 was a civilian biplane airliner flying boat made by Short Brothers. Design and development The Calcutta biplane flying boat originated from an Imperial Airways requirement to service the Mediterranean legs of its servi ...

* Short Chamois *

Short Gurnard The Short Gurnard was a single-engined two-seat biplane naval fighter, built in the United Kingdom to an Air Ministry specification in 1929. It failed to win production orders and only two flew. Design and development The duralumin-framed S ...

Short Kent The Short S.17 Kent was a British four-engined 15-seat biplane luxury flying boat airliner, designed and built by Short Brothers, Shorts to meet a requirement from Imperial Airways for an aircraft with greater range than the Short Calcutta. The ...

Short Rangoon The Short S.8/8 Rangoon was a 1930s British three-engined biplane flying boat, designed and built by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force. Background In 1929, the Royal Air Force needed urgent replacements of the Supermarine Southampton II ...

Short Scylla The Short L.17 Scylla was a British four-engined 39-seat biplane airliner designed and built by Short Brothers at the request of Imperial Airways to supplement the Handley Page H.P.42 fleet already in service after Handley Page quoted an excessi ...

Short Springbok The Short Springbok was a two-seat, all-metal reconnaissance biplane produced for the British Air Ministry in the 1920s. All together six aircraft of the Springbok design were built but none entered service with the armed forces. Design The Sp ...

Short S.6 Sturgeon The Short S.6 Sturgeon was a prototype single-engined biplane naval reconnaissance aircraft, built to an Air Ministry specification but mostly intended as a demonstrator of the corrosion resistance of duralumin aircraft structures. Two were ma ...

Short Valetta The Short S.11 Valetta was a 1930s United Kingdom, British passenger monoplane designed and built by Short Brothers at Rochester. Development The Valetta was designed and built for the Air Ministry to enable comparisons between a floatplane/l ...

* Supermarine Seagull * Supermarine Solent *

Supermarine Southampton The Supermarine Southampton was a flying boat of the interwar period designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Supermarine. It was one of the most successful flying boats of the era. The Southampton was derived from the experime ...

Svenska Aero Jaktfalken Svenska Aero Jaktfalken ("Gyrfalcon") was a Swedish biplane fighter aircraft, constructed in the late 1920s. The aircraft was first manufactured by Svenska Aero and later by AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning (ASJA). Histor ...

Tupolev I-4 The Tupolev I-4 was a Soviet sesquiplane single-seat fighter. It was conceived in 1927 by Pavel Sukhoi as his first aircraft design for the Tupolev design bureau, and was the first Soviet all-metal fighter. Design and development After the first ...

* Vickers F.21/26 * Vickers F.29/27 *

Vickers Jockey The Vickers Type 151 Jockey was an experimental low-wing monoplane interceptor fighter powered by a radial engine. It was later modified into the Type 171 Jockey II, which had a more powerful engine and detail improvements. Only one was built; ...

Vickers Type 143 The Vickers Type 143 or Bolivian Scout was a British single-seat fighter biplane designed and built by Vickers in 1929-1930. Six were built for Bolivia in 1930, which used the survivors in the Chaco War against Paraguay. Design and developm ...

* Vickers Type 150 *

Vickers Valiant The Vickers Valiant was a British high-altitude jet bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons, and in the 1950s and 1960s was part of the Royal Air Force's "V bomber" strategic deterrent force. It was developed by Vickers-Armstrongs in response ...

Vickers Vellore The Vickers Vellore was a large biplane designed as a freight and mail carrier, in single-engined and twin-engined versions, which saw limited use as freighters and long-range experimental aircraft. A final variant with a broader fuselage, the ...

* Vickers Vellox *

Vickers Vespa The Vickers Vespa was a British army cooperation biplane designed and built by Vickers Limited in the 1920s. While not adopted by Britain's Royal Air Force, small numbers were bought by the Irish Free State and Bolivia, the latter of which used ...

* Vickers Viastra *

Vickers Victoria The Vickers Type 56 Victoria was a British biplane Cargo aircraft, freighter and troop transport aircraft used by the Royal Air Force. The Victoria flew for the first time in 1922 and was selected for production over the Armstrong Whitworth Awan ...

Vickers Vildebeest The Vickers Vildebeest and the similar Vickers Vincent were two very large two- to three-seat single-engined British biplanes designed and built by Vickers and used as light bombers, torpedo bombers and in army cooperation roles. First flown i ...

Vickers Vimy The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by Vickers Limited. Developed during the latter stages of the First World War to equip the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Vimy was designed by Reginald Kirshaw "Rex" ...

* Vickers Vimy Trainer * Vickers Wibault Scout *

Villiers 26 The Villiers 26 was a French naval seaplane which used Handley Page slats to provide the wide speed range required for escort and patrol duties. It was tested, behaved satisfactorily but received no production order. Design The 1928 Villiers X ...

Westland Interceptor The Westland Interceptor was a fighter developed by the British company Westland Aircraft to Air Ministry Specification ''F.20/27''. When tested in 1929 and 1930, it showed unsatisfactory handling characteristics and was rejected by the RAF in ...

Westland Wapiti The Westland Wapiti was a British two-seat general-purpose military single-engined biplane of the 1920s. It was designed and built by Westland Aircraft Works to replace the Airco DH.9A in Royal Air Force service. First flying in 1927, the Wa ...

Westland Westbury The Westland Westbury was a British twin-engined fighter prototype of 1926. Designed by Westland Aircraft it never entered service but played a useful role in the testing of the COW 37 mm gun. Only the two prototypes were completed. Developmen ...

Westland Witch The Westland Witch was an unsuccessful British bomber prototype, first flown in 1928. Only a single aircraft of this type was built. Development The Witch was developed to List of Air Ministry specifications, specification 23/25 for a single-e ...

* Westland-Houston PV.3

Gnome-Rhône Jupiter

* Bernard SIMB AB 12 *

Blanchard BB-1 __NOTOC__ The Blanchard BB-1 was a 1920s French racing flying-boat designed and built by Société des Avions Blanchard to compete in Schneider Trophy The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider, also known as the Schneider Trophy, Schneid ...

Breguet 19 Breguet or Bréguet may refer to: * Breguet (watch), watch manufacturer **Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823), Swiss watchmaker **Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804–1883), French physicist, watchmaker, electrical and telegraph work * Bréguet ...

* Fizir F1M-Jupiter *

Latécoère 6 The Latécoère 6 was a French four-engined biplane bomber of the early 1920s. It was of advanced all-metal construction and probably the first aircraft to use geodetic construction. Only one was built. Design and development In October 1920 Lat ...

Lioré et Olivier LeO H-15 The Lioré et Olivier Leo H-15 was a French twelve-seat civil flying boat, flown in a national contest in 1926. It did not win but set two load carrying records, one a world record. Design and development In 1926 the French government offered ...

* Potez 29/4 * Wibault Wib.220 *

Denhaut Hy.479 The Denhaut Hy.479 was a French flying boat flown in 1926 and intended to be suitable for commercial or military applications. Only one, in military configuration, was built and was sometimes known as the France-Aviation Denhaut. Design and deve ...

Shvetsov M-22

Kalinin K-5 The Kalinin K-5 was an airliner produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, built in larger quantities than any other Soviet airliner of its time, with some 260 aircraft constructed. It was a conventional, high-wing, strut-braced monoplane with a ...

Kalinin K-12 The Kalinin K-12 was a proof-of-concept aircraft developed by the Kalinin Design Bureau in the 1930s. Design and development The K-12 was intended as a tailless bomber aircraft. Also called the Kalinin BS-2 or the ''Zhar-Ptitsa'' ("Firebird"), it ...

Polikarpov I-5 The Polikarpov I-5 was a single-seat biplane which became the primary Soviet fighter between its introduction in 1931 through 1936, after which it became the standard advanced trainer. Following Operation Barbarossa, which destroyed much of the ...

Polikarpov I-15 The Polikarpov I-15 (russian: И-15) was a Soviet biplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s. Nicknamed ''Chaika'' (''russian: Чайка'', "Seagull") because of its gulled upper wings,Gunston 1995, p. 299.Green and Swanborough 1979, p. 10. it was o ...

* Yakovlev AIR-7

Engines on display

* A Bristol Jupiter VI is on static display at

Aerospace Bristol Aerospace Bristol is an aerospace museum at Filton, to the north of Bristol, England, U.K. The project is run by the Bristol Aero Collection Trust and houses a varied collection of exhibits, including Concorde ''Alpha Foxtrot'', the final Conco ...

in the former Bristol Aeroplane Company factory complex in Filton, a suburb of Bristol, United Kingdom. * A Bristol Jupiter VIIF is on static display 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 ...

in Old Warden, United Kingdom. * A Bristol Jupiter VIIIF is on static display at the

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, also called the Udvar-Hazy Center, is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)'s annex at Washington Dulles International Airport in the Chantilly area of Fairfax County, Virginia. It holds numerous ...

of the

National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the Air and Space Museum, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, it opened its main building on the Nat ...

at Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. * A

complete with a Jupiter VIIFP engine is on static display at the

Royal Air Force Museum London The Royal Air Force Museum London (also commonly known as the RAF Museum) is located on the former Hendon Aerodrome. It includes five buildings and hangars showing the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force. It is part of the Royal Air Forc ...

in Hendon, United Kingdom.

Specifications (Jupiter XFA)

References

Bibliography

* * Bridgman, L. (ed.) ''Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II''. New York: Crescent Books, 1998. * Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. . * Gunston, Bill. ''Development of Piston Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 2006. * Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.

External links

* Contemporary article on Cosmos Engineering's air-cooled radial engines. Photos of the Cosmos Jupiter are o
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