Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire Jet Engine

Wright qualified the sapphire as the military j65 and production began in 1952.
Armstrong siddeley sapphire jet engine. In 1950 the wright aeronautical corporation a division of the curtiss wright corporation entered the aircraft gas turbine business when its president roy t. It powered early versions of the hawker hunter and handley page victor and every. It was the ultimate development of work that had started as the metrovick f 2 in 1940 evolving into an advanced axial flow design with an annular combustion chamber that developed over 11 000 lbf 71 kn. A distinctive element of the sapphires was the traditional armstrong siddeley v shaped radiator grille with the sphinx motif mounted on it.
Hurley traveled to britain and obtained licenses from bristol for its olympus turbojet engine and armstrong siddeley for its sapphire turbojet engine to manufacture and sell their engines in the u s. The sapphire was a turbojet engine produced by armstrong siddeley in the 1950s. The armstrong siddeley sapphire was a british turbojet engine produced by armstrong siddeley in the 1950s. The armstrong siddeley sapphire is a large automobile which was produced by the british company armstrong siddeley motors limited from 1952 to 1960.
It was the ultimate development of work that had started as the metrovick f 2 in 1940 evolving into an advanced axial flow design with an annular combustion chamber that developed over 11 000 lbf 49 kn. Hurley traveled to britain and obtained licenses to manufacture and sell the bristol olympus turbojet and armstrong siddeley sapphire turbojet in the u s. In 1950 wright aeronautical entered the aircraft gas turbine business when its president roy t.