AEROPLANE RESEARCH.
ENGINE FOR STRATOSPHERE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 25. , The Bristol Aviation- Company is working on an experimental aeroplane for flights in the stratosphere. A special highly supercharged and extremely powerful engine ip being developed, designed to maintain power output at levels of 50,000 ft and more, and to drive an airscrew of variable pitch. The designers now have a great deal of information about conditions to be met in flight at great heights, as Bristol engines have been fitted to each of the three aeroplanes which have set up height records in recent years. The present record of 47.350 ft, held by Renaat Donati, an Italian aviator, was established in a biplane equipped with a supercharged Bristol Pegasus 1100 horse-power motor.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 257, 27 September 1935, Page 9
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124AEROPLANE RESEARCH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 257, 27 September 1935, Page 9
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