Armstrong Siddeley stentor
The Armstrong Siddeley Stentor , later also Bristol Siddeley BSSt.1 Stentor, was a two-stage rocket engine that the British manufacturer Armstrong Siddeley built from 1960. It was used to drive the Avro Blue Steel guided missile , which was used by the British V-bomber fleet . A combustion chamber provided the starting thrust and was switched off 29 seconds after the launch. The second, smaller combustion chamber was used for the rest of the flight.
construction and development
The stentor was powered with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and kerosene . The machine had a built-in pipe mounting frame that was connected to the rear bulkhead of the missile by six locks, so that the entire engine disappeared into the tubular fairing and the nozzles looked out to the rear.
Missile with Armstrong Siddeley stentor
Machines on display
Surviving Stentor can be found in the following museums:
- Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
- Midland Air Museum
- University of Liverpool in the engineering department foyer
- Aeroventure in Doncaster
Data
General
- Type: rocket engine for liquid fuel
- Length: 1470 mm
- Width: 960 mm
- Height: 1130 mm
- Weight: 339 kg, including oil and nitrogen
- Fuel: kerosene
- Oxidizing agent : hydrogen peroxide
power
- Thrust: starting chamber: 106.8 kN, operating chamber: 26.7 kN
- Push weight: 3.174 kg / kN
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stentor rocket motor . Skomer. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
- ^ Rocket Engines for Piloted Aircraft . In: Bristol Siddeley Magazine . 1960.
- ↑ Blue Steel in Action . In: Flight . March 11, 1960, p. 329.
