The ABC Scorpion is a 30 hp (22 kW) two-cylinder

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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

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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, bu ...

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-win ...

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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 Fly ...

''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 ...

RWD 1 The RWD 1 was a Polish sports plane of 1928, a single-engine high-wing monoplane constructed by the RWD design team. Development The RWD 1 was the first aircraft constructed by the RWD team of Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura and Jerzy ...

SAI KZ I The SAI KZ I was a sport aircraft built in Denmark in 1937, the first aircraft built by the Kramme & Zeuthen firm. Design and development The KZ I was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional design, with fixed tailwheel undercarriage an ...

Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub The Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub was a single engine, single seat parasol wing monoplane, designed and built in Canada in 1930. It was intended to be a simple and economical vehicle with which pilots could increase their flying experience. It was ...

Short Satellite The Short S.4 Satellite was a small British two-seater sporting monoplane, produced in 1924 to take part in the Air Ministry's Two-Seater Light Aeroplane competition on 27 September of that year. Design Design began in July, with only weeks ava ...

Snyder Buzzard The Snyder Buzzard was a light sport aircraft produced in the United States during the early 1930s. The designer/builder was Bud Snyder. Design and development Designed to fill the lowest segment of the civil aviation market, the Buzzard was a si ...

Udet U 7 Kolibri The Udet U 7 Kolibri (Hummingbird) was a single engine, single seat, parasol wing light aircraft, designed and built in Germany in the mid-1920s. Though they had some competition success and set an unofficial lightplane duration record, only two ...

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

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ANEC II The ANEC I and ANEC II were 1920s British single-engine ultralight aircraft designed and built by Air Navigation and Engineering Company Limited at Addlestone Surrey. One was privately constructed in Brisbane, Australia. History The ANEC I ...

( ''G-EBJO'') flies regularly at the

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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 endi ...

1920s aircraft piston engines