The Turbomeca Palas is a diminutive centrifugal flow

turbojet The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft. It consists of a gas turbine with a propelling nozzle. The gas turbine has an air inlet which includes inlet guide vanes, a compressor, a combustion chamber, and ...

engine used to power light aircraft. An enlargement of the

Turbomeca Piméné The Turbomeca Piméné was a small French turbojet engine produced by Turbomeca in the early 1950s.Gunston 1989, p. 170. First shown at the 1949 Paris Air Show this engine passed official type tests in 1950.

, the Palas was designed in 1950 by the French manufacturer Société Turbomeca,Gunston 1989, p. 169. and was also produced under licence by Blackburn and General Aircraft in the United Kingdom and

Teledyne Continental Motors Continental Aerospace Technologies is an aircraft engine manufacturer located at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was originally spun off from automobile engine manufacturer Continental Motors Company in 1929 and ow ...

in the United States as the Continental Model 320.

Applications

* Caproni Trento F.5 *

Curtiss C-46 Commando The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 in company p ...

(two under the fuselage, first flight in October 1952) * Curtiss C-46F Commando (two under the wings) * CVV-6 Canguro Palas *

Douglas DC-3 The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II. It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper ...

(as a booster engine) *

Fouga CM-8 R9.8 Cyclope The Fouga CM.8 or Castel-Mauboussin CM.8 was a French sailplane of the 1950s, most notable in retrospect due to its place in the development of the Fouga CM.170 Magister jet trainer. Design and development The CM.8 was a single-seat aircraft o ...

* Fouga CM-8 R8.3 Midget * Fouga CM.130 *

Ikarus 451 The Ikarus 451 is a family of research aircraft designs built in the former Yugoslavia in the 1950s by the Belgrade-based manufacturer Ikarus (now Ikarbus), all sharing the same basic airframe, but differing in powerplants and cockpit arrangeme ...

Ikarus S451M The Ikarus 451 is a family of research aircraft designs built in the former Yugoslavia in the 1950s by the Belgrade-based manufacturer Ikarus (now Ikarbus), all sharing the same basic airframe, but differing in powerplants and cockpit arrangeme ...

Ikarus 452M The Ikarus 452M (B-452-2) was a Yugoslav experimental aircraft first revealed in 1953. It was Yugoslavia’s first swept-wing light jet fighter-interceptor. The all-metal aircraft featured retractable nose-wheel landing gear and was the first ...

Mantelli AM-12 Adriano Mantelli (13 February 1913 – 6 May 1995) was an Italian aircraft designer who designed the Alaparma Baldo. Early life In 1929 Mantelli competed in flying competitions with aircraft that were self designed and built. In 1931 he starte ...

* Miles Sparrowjet *

Payen Pa 49 The Payen Pa 49 Katy was a small experimental French turbojet powered tailless aircraft, designed by Nicolas Roland Payen, and first flown in 1954. It was the first French aircraft of this kind and the smallest jet aircraft of its day. Design ...

* Short SB.4 Sherpa * SIPA S.200 Minijet *

SIPA S.300 The SIPA S.300 was a French turbojet powered Trainer (aircraft), basic trainer, claimed to be the first of its kind anywhere. Only one was built, the prototype crashing after a year's development. Design and development The SIPA S.300 was claim ...

Somers-Kendall SK-1 __NOTOC__ The Somers-Kendall SK-1 was a light jet-powered 1950s British two-seat racing monoplane, designed by Hugh Kendall and built by Somers-Kendall Aircraft Limited at Woodley Aerodrome. Design and development The SK-1 was a wooden two-sea ...

Sud-Ouest Bretagne The Sud-Ouest S.O.30 Bretagne was a 1940s French airliner built by Sud-Ouest. Design and development The Bretagne (Engl. "Brittany") was designed by a group of designers and engineers who were based at Cannes from May 1941 following the invasi ...

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References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.

External links

Palas at Minijets.org
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Palas A ''palas'' () is a German term for the imposing or prestigious building of a medieval '' Pfalz'' or castle that contained the great hall. Such buildings appeared during the Romanesque period (11th to 13th century) and, according to Thompson ...

1950s turbojet engines Centrifugal-flow turbojet engines

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