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Merlin 45 Aeroplane Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1940

Rolls-Royce Avon 100 Turbine Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1950

Olympus 201 jet engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1960

Derwent V aircraft engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1946; 1946

Power jets (Whittle) W2/700 Turbojet engine 1944.

Aircraft Propulsion

De Havilland 4-Blade Propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1961-1996

Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk 22 Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1946

Jet-X rocket engine for model aircraft

Aircraft Propulsion

Sectioned F2/3 Jet Aircraft Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

c.1948

9-Cylinder Leonides 173 Radial Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

c. 1936

Hercules 264 Radial Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1953
Bristol ‘Centaurus’ sleeve-valve radial 18-cylinder aero engine, part-sectioned, by The Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited, Bristol, Somerset, England, 1942-1950

Bristol 'Centaurus' sleeve-valve aero engine, c 1940s.

Aircraft Propulsion

1942-1950

Axial-flow compressor

Aircraft Propulsion

1939

F2/2 axial-flow compressor

Aircraft Propulsion

1942

Three blade propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1935-1950

W2/700 Gas Aircraft Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1941

Ramjet component

Aircraft Propulsion

1958

Ramjet

Aircraft Propulsion

1958

F2/1 jet engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1941

Model aircraft engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1952

Connecting rod from Rolls-Royce Merlin 24

Aircraft Propulsion

RB211-22B Jet Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1973

Piston head, Merlin 24 engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Exhaust valve, Merlin 24 engine

Aircraft Propulsion
W.1 Jet Propulsion Whittle Engine.

W.1 Jet Propulsion Whittle Engine.

Aircraft Propulsion
Nakajima ‘Homare’, air-cooled twin-row 18 cylinder radial aero-engine, by Nakajima Aircraft Company, Japan, 1943-1945

Nakajima ‘Homare’, air-cooled twin-row 18 cylinder radial aero-engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1943-1945
Gnome 50 HP 7 Cylinder Rotary aero engine, with metal engine to fuselage gasket, designed by Louis Seguin and Laurent Seguin, and made by Societe des Moteurs Gnome, France, 1908-1914. The engine has seven cylinders, machined out of solid nickel-chrome-steel ingots. The cylinders and crank-chamber revolve around the stationary crankshaft. The carburettor, which is stationary, is of the single-jet type and feeds the engine through the hollow crank shaft. The connecting rods all operate on a single crank pin. Henri Farman used this type of engine to win a prize for the greatest distance flown (180 km), setting a World record.

Gnome 50 HP 7 Cylinder Rotary aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1908-1914
Turbojet, six-stage axial flow compressor, single stage turbine, Westinghouse model-19A ‘Yankee’ aero engine: original outline design by Dr. Stewart Way at Westinghouse Research Laboratories and detailed design by Westinghouse steam turbine division and built by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, United States of America, 1943. The Westinghouse model-19A ‘Yankee’ was the first jet engine to be designed and built in the United States of America.

Westinghouse Turbo-jet model-19A 'Yankee'

Aircraft Propulsion

1943

Avro Lancaster Propeller Tip Memorabilia

Aircraft Propulsion

1945
E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp), V8 cylinder, (incomplete), E. N. V. Motor Syndicate Limited, Willesden, Middlesex, England, 1910-1911. The engine’s cast-iron cylinders machined inside and out, have electrically deposited copper water jackets. The crankshaft is supported in six ball-bearings, with a double thrust race at the propeller end to take thrust in both directions. The side valves are operated by a hollow camshaft working through hardened steel balls at the bottom of each tappet. Lubrication is forced fed by a pump actuated by an eccentric on the crankshaft. Used in 1910, by Harold Hume Piffard, when he flew his flies 'Humming Bird' aircraft from Shoreham Airport, Shoreham, Sussex, England.

E.N.V. Aero-engine type D (40hp), V8 cylinder, (incomplete)

Aircraft Propulsion

Ford tool check token

Aircraft Propulsion

Fixed-pitch propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1936

Jetex rocket engine for model aircraft

Aircraft Propulsion

Two bladed propeller from Avro 504

Aircraft Propulsion

1913-1940

Tin containing wick for Jetex rocket motor

Aircraft Propulsion

Piston, complete with gudgeon pin and cylinder rings, for Napier ‘Lion’ aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1917-1925
Sectioned and operating example of the Napier ‘Sabre’ aero engine, with two reduction gear casing lugs, by D. Napier and Son Limited, England, 1944-1946

Sectioned example of the Napier ‘Sabre’ aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1944-1946

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

after 1903
"Antoinette" engine originally fitted to airship "Nulli Secundus", by Leon Levavasseur, France, 1907

"Antoinette" engine originally fitted to airship "Nulli Secundus"

Aircraft Propulsion

1907
Swash-plate axial aero engine, designed by John Wooler and made by the Wooler Motor Cycle Company (1919) Limited, Middlesex, England, 1947

Swash-plate axial aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1947

Half piston, Merlin 24 engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Hex bolt with four holes through shaft, for Beardmore Heavy Oil diesel engine, from Airship R. 101

Aircraft Propulsion

1928
Steam engine for Henson-Stringfellow model flying machine, designed and constructed by William Samuel Henson and John Frederick Stringfellow, England, 1840-1842

Steam engine, for Henson-Stringfellow model flying machine, 1840-1842

Aircraft Propulsion

1840-1842
Beardmore Heavy Oil engine, diesel engine, Tornado Mark III (No. 35, A.103459), by William Beardmore and Company Limited, Parkhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1928. The Beardmore Heavy Oil engine, diesel engine, Tornado Mark III (No. 35, A.103459) was tested and used in several flight trials on the H.M. Airship R. 101. However, it is thought unlikely that this engine was on the final flight when the H.M. Airship R. 101 crashed.

Beardmore Heavy Oil diesel engine, from Airship R. 101

Aircraft Propulsion

1928
140 H.P. R.A.F. engine no. 944 W.D. No. 4811, England, 1915-1920

140 H.P. R.A.F. engine no. 944 W.D. No. 4811

Aircraft Propulsion

Jet-X rocket engine for model aircraft

Aircraft Propulsion

Jetex rocket motor for model aircraft

Aircraft Propulsion

Photograph: 300 H.P. 12-cylinder "Cossack" engine

Aircraft Propulsion

Clock made from Propellor Boss

Aircraft Propulsion

1914-1939
Boiler, for horizontal single cylinder-slide valve steam engine, by John Stringfellow, Chard, Somerset, England, 1847-1848. John Stringfellow made the boiler for a William Henson designed ten-foot wing-span model aircraft.

Boiler, for Stringfellow's 1847-8 flying machine

Aircraft Propulsion

1847-1848