From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
The performance of Vee carburetters on Kestrel engines and related flight tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 179\2\ img222 | |
| Date | 14th October 1932 | |
| -3- He/Drs.3/14.10.32.CHAK1. Kestrel 41 engine. Vee carburettors. The performance of the Vee carburetter fitted to Kestrel 41 engine in the Fox machine at Farnborough, has been the subject of a conference between the Air Ministry and the R.A.E. with a view to future Kestrel Vee engines being fitted with this modified carburetter, and has been accepted as being able to fulfill all claims made for the carburetter, in preference to the existing type, as regards balance, immunity from detuning etc. The general handling of the machine having proved the carburetter to be vastly superior to the present type. The flight observation tests which we were to have carried out on the Antelope machine, for investigation of the cutting out of the fully supercharged Kestrel engines at high altitudes, are considerably delayed owing to trouble with the machine, which is gradually breaking up when in flight. It is possible that the Air Ministry will loan a Fighter Hart machine with a full supercharged engine, for these tests. The R.A.E. are asking for this, and consider we should press the job as much as possible, to avoid the tests being shelved as the warmer weather approaches. JHs/G.H.Farmer. | ||