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

aero engine An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Aircraft using power components are referred to as powered flight. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbin ...

designed by British engineer Granville Bradshaw 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

ABC Robin The ABC Robin was a British single-seat light aircraft designed by A. A. (Tony) Fletcher in 1929 in aviation, 1929. It was a high-wing, single-seat monoplane of conventional Conventional landing gear, taildragger configuration. The cockpit was ...

* Boulton Paul Phoenix * BFW M.19 * BFW M.23 * Comper Swift *

de Havilland Humming Bird The de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird is a British single-seat, single-engine, low-wing monoplane light aircraft first flown in the 1920s. Design and development In response to the ''Daily Mail'' Light Aeroplane Competition of 1923, de Havillan ...

Farman Moustique The Farman Moustique is a family of French monoplanes built by the Société des Aéroplanes Henry et Maurice Farman at Billancourt. Shortly after the end of World War I, Farman introduced a low powered single seat monoplane for sport and t ...

Hawker Cygnet The Hawker Cygnet is a British ultralight sesquiplane aircraft of the 1920s. Background In 1924, the Royal Aero Club organized a Lympne light aircraft trials#1924, Light Aircraft Competition. £3000 was offered in prizes. An entry was made by ...

* Heath Parasol * Hendy Hobo * Henderson-Glenny Gadfly * Kay Gyroplane * Luton Minor * Mignet HM.14 ''Pou-du-Ciel'' * Parmentier Wee Mite * Peyret-Mauboussin PM X *

RWD 1 The RWD 1 was a Polish sports plane of 1928 in aviation, 1928, a single-engine high-wing monoplane constructed by the RWD (aircraft manufacturer), RWD design team. Development The RWD 1 was the first aircraft constructed by the RWD (aircraft manu ...

* SAI KZ I * Saynor & Bell Canadian Cub * Short Satellite * Snyder Buzzard * Udet U 7 Kolibri * Wheeler Slymph *

Westland Woodpigeon __NOTOC__ The Westland Woodpigeon was a British two-seat light biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wi ...

Survivors

The only ANEC II ( ''G-EBJO'') flies regularly at the Shuttleworth Collection at

Old Warden Old Warden is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England, about south-east of the county town of Bedford. The 2011 census shows its population as 328. The ...

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 (biology), order Scorpiones. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by a pair of Chela (organ), grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward cur ...

1920s aircraft piston engines