The Wolseley Aquarius I or A.R.7 was a British seven-cylinder, air-cooled
radial
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Mathematics and Direction
* Vector (geometric), a line
* Radius, adjective form of
* Radial distance, a directional coordinate in a polar coordinate system
* Radial set
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aero engine that first ran in 1933, it was designed and built by
Wolseley Motors
Wolseley Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in early 1901 by the Vickers Armaments in conjunction with Herbert Austin. It initially made a full range, topped by large luxury cars, and dominated the market in the E ...
. Intended for the military
trainer aircraft
A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristi ...
market few were produced, as Wolseley
withdrew from the aero engine market in 1936.
Applications
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Hawker Tomtit
The Hawker Tomtit is a British training biplane from the late 1920s.
Design and development
The Royal Air Force in 1927 required a replacement for their current elementary trainers, the elderly Avro 504Ns. They specified that the power plant sh ...
Specifications (A.R.7)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .
External links
''Flight'', January 1936 - Wolseley Aquarius advertisement{{Wolseley aeroengines
1930s aircraft piston engines
Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
Aquarius
Aquarius may refer to:
Astrology
* Aquarius (astrology), an astrological sign
* Age of Aquarius, a time period in the cycle of astrological ages
Astronomy
* Aquarius (constellation)
* Aquarius in Chinese astronomy
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