Green C.4
The Green C.4 was an English water-cooled four-cylinder aircraft engine introduced by Gustavus Green in 1908 .
Green has been developing aircraft engines since 1905. In 1913 he founded his own Green Engine Company . The Green C.4 has been installed in various aircraft over the years. The main customers were the Avro works in Manchester .
Technical specifications
- Type: Four-cylinder in-line piston engine with upright cylinders and copper cooling jacket
- Bore: 105 mm
- Stroke: 120 mm
- Displacement: 4.158 liters
- Length: 991 mm
- Width: 406 mm
- Height: 711 mm
- Dry weight: 83 kg
- Valve train: overhead camshaft, two valves per cylinder
- Fuel type: gasoline
- Carburetor: an aviation carburetor with mixture adjustment
- Cooling system: water cooling
- Ignition: magneto ignition
- Starter: none, started by hand
- Motor lubrication: dry sump with two return pumps
- Propeller: direct drive without reduction, clockwise
- Output: 39 kW (52.5 PS) at 1,460 revolutions per minute (maximum output)
Applications
- Aeronautical Syndicate Valkyrie Type A
- Roe II triplane
- Roe III triplane
- Roe IV triplane
- Avro Type D
- Avro baby
- Blackburn First Monoplane
- Handley Page Type B
- Handley Page Type D
- Chert biplane
- Macfie Empress
- Martin Handasyde No.3
- Neale VII biplane
- Short p.27
- Sopwith Burgess-Wright
- Wells Reo
literature
- Bill Gunston: World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Patrick Stephens Limited, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 1-85260-163-9 .
- Alec Lumsden: British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Airlife Publishing, Marlborough, Wiltshire 2003, ISBN 1-85310-294-6 .
Web links
Commons : Green C.4 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Green Engine Co. (1913), Ltd. In: Flight , September 20, 1913, p. 1054.
- ↑ Technical data