The Napier Naiad is a British
turboprop
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A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction drive, reduction gearbox, gas compressor, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propellin ...
gas-turbine engine designed and built by
D. Napier & Son in the late 1940s. It was the company's first gas turbine engine. A twin version known as the Coupled Naiad was developed but both engine projects were cancelled before finding a market. The Naiad was also used, in adapted form, in the
Napier Nomad
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turbo-compound engine
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design.
Applications
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Avro Lincoln
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– Test bed only
Engines on display
A Napier Naiad is on display at the
Science Museum
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, London.
Science Museum Wiki page - Napier Naiad
Retrieved: 28 July 2009
Specifications (Naiad)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
External links
a 1948 ''Flight'' article
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