Blackburn Cirrus Midget

Cirrus Midget
Type Air-cooled 4-cylinder inline piston engine
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Blackburn Aircraft
First run 1937
Major applications Chilton D.W.1



The Blackburn Cirrus Midget was a British four-cylinder, inverted, inline air-cooled aero engine designed and built in 1937 by the Cirrus Engine Section of Blackburn Aircraft Limited. Little is known of its development and use, its sole aircraft application being reported as the Chilton D.W.1 although it is possible that this did not transpire.[1][2]

Specifications (Cirrus Midget)

Data from Lumsden [3][4][5]

General characteristics

Components

Performance

See also


Comparable engines
Related lists

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Lumsden 2003, p.90.
  2. ↑ Flightglobal archive - Intended Chilton D.W.1 application - Flight, October 1938 Retrieved: 2 September 2009.
  3. ↑ Lumsden 2003, p. 90.
  4. ↑ Lumsden 2003, p. 282.
  5. ↑ The mixture of Imperial and metric units is either due to Blackburn convention or an error in transcription.

Bibliography

  • Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-85310-294-6.

External links

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