Warbird Information Exchange

To put it in short, the cylinder "liner"(sleeve) moves up and down during the stroke of the piston. By way of its own set of gears. The Spark plugs are located on top of the cyl. head, the intake and two exhaust ports are located on the sides of the cylinder.

I'm glad Nelsons not putting one of those buggers on the Tempest
This will no doubt result in some minor bickering about the two engines that are on Sea Fury's now.

Here's a good sleve valve video that helped me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liqqo8Cd ... re=related

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Hmmmm. can you say 'complicated'? I'd like to see still pix, stroke by stroke of how it works. That video gives a good general idea though.
thanks guys.

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Anyhow, as long as y'all do as good a work as you did on Lefty's old plane y'all can be forgiven on the old spell-checker...

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Doug that seemed slow enough even for me I forgot about the sleeve rotation for the intake and exhaust. I guess the neatest thing about it is there are no intake or exhaust valves and the spark plugs are easy to get to

Well I'm glad to hear the Tempest is finally getting some work done, and I'm kinda glad to hear it with get a U.S. engine...that means it will fly someday, rather then sit around like the rest of the Tempests have for the last 30 or so years.

Jim

GROAN Nope, I'm not gonna' cry and I'll spare you the horrified bleatings of an indignant penniless penguin!

So I guess Getchell's Sea Fury and the RNHF are the only Centaurus SF's still in the air? I've heard the Ozzies are looking
to do one and are on parts search for the Bristol. RHNF is looking to have some pistons and rings made here in the states
for VR930.
http://royalnavyhistoricflight.org.uk

Sighhhh..yep..yep..yep..yep..yep. The shame of it..the shame. Californians finally beating the Texans at
something. The inhumanity...

Thanks for the update Steve...

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sigh - I'd like to see a Banshee or Cougar get the treatment the EJ-1 got. . . . .

Tom P.

There used to be more Bristols flying but several have crashed and burned. Bob Friedman, Johnny Williams, THe Royal Navy's, THe two place that was sold by COurtesy Aircraft and crashed a month later, and many more.

Which one was this?

There is another Centaurus powered Sea Fury about which is the ex RNHF T20 restored in America and now reportedly owned by the Fighter Collection.

There are more than two flying around with the original power plant, the one chuck Greenhill restored did not crash, the most recent crash was the one owned by Cavanaugh but it had the 3350.
I believe John Bradshaws in England still has the Centaurus. One down under IIRC? Off the top of my head there's got to be around 5-6 that fly with their original powerplant?
Somebody correct me?

Good to know, but I actually shifted gears in my comment. Getchell's and any others Centaurus birds
flying here in the US?

I started looking in the registry but that was American stuff time after time..

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"Leave it to ol' Slim. I got ideas...and they're all vile, baby." South Dakota Slim
"Ahh..."The Deuce", 28,000 pounds of motherly love." quote from some Mojave Grunt
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The silver one that TFC bought has a Centaurus. It is in Chino for the moment.

They have two 'silver' ones and a not-silver-one at the moment. You are referring to the rebuilt WG655 two seater, which is airworthy, plus, in the UK, another very non airworthy (silver) two-seater (I think sans engine) and a single seater under restoration awaiting engine, if I'm up to date.

On Centarus Sea Furies, apart from static museum examples, there are at least three in Aus at the moment, none as far as I know flying, two which were airworthy recently - one impounded while a trial goes through, another awaiting repair after shipping damage. The third is a rebuild project.

Maybe I'm being think, but where is the reference to re-engining the Tempest on the website?

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When the Sanders Bros. 924 flies again, you can add it to the list...

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