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The Bristol Lucifer is a British three-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft. Built in the UK in the 1920s by the
Bristol Aeroplane Company
The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines. Notable ...
, it produced 100 horsepower (75 kW).
The Lucifer was originally a 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 com ...
engine, Cosmos being taken over by Bristol in 1920.
Applications
*Albatros L 69
The Albatros L 69 was a two-seat German parasol monoplane racing and training aircraft of 1925. It was a single-engine parasol-wing monoplane of conventional configuration that seated the pilot and passenger in tandem, open cockpits. It was adver ...
*Avro 504
The Avro 504 is a single-engine biplane bomber made by the Avro, Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during World War I totalled 8,970 and continued for almost 20 years, making it the most-produced aircraft of any kind ...
* Boulton Paul P.10
*Bristol M.1D
The Bristol M.1 Monoplane Scout is a British monoplane fighter of the First World War. It holds the distinction of being the only British monoplane fighter to reach production during the conflict.
During mid-1916, work commenced at Bristol o ...
* Bristol Primary Trainer
* Bryant 1927 monoplane (Dole Race entrant, christened ''Angel of Los Angeles'')
*Handley Page Hamlet
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The Handley Page HP.32 Hamlet was a British six-passenger monoplane transport designed and built by Handley Page.Jackson 1973, p320-321 Only one was built to order of the Air Ministry, first flown with three-engines, later changed to tw ...
*LFG V 44
The LFG V 40 and V 44 were one-off, single-engine, two-seat sports monoplanes, identical apart from their engines, built in Germany in 1925.
Design and development
The V 40 and V 44 were all-metal high-wing monoplanes, with thick, straight-edg ...
* NVI F.K.29
*Parnall Peto
The Parnall Peto was a small seaplane designed to the British Air Ministry's specification 16/24 in the early 1920s for use as a submarine-carried reconnaissance aircraft.
Design and development
Two examples were designed and built by George ...
*Tupolev ANT-2
The ANT-2 was the first all-metal aircraft designed by the Tupolev design bureau. A small passenger plane, it could carry two passengers in a cabin behind the pilot.
Background
Andrei Tupolev saw the practicality of metal used in aircraft con ...
*Udet U 8
The parasol wing, single engine Udet U 8, sometimes referred to as the Limousine, was a three-seat commercial passenger transport designed and built in Germany in 1924. Five were produced and were used by German airlines until about 1928.
Design ...
Specifications (Lucifer 1)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. . {{Cosmos aeroengines Aircraft air-cooled radial piston enginesLucifer
The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.
He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bib ...
1910s aircraft piston engines