Armstrong Siddeley Screamer

__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__infobox rocket engine
name=Screamer
country_of_origin=Britain
date=March 1954 (first static test)
purpose=
type=liquid
fuel=
oxidiser=liquid oxygen (LOX)
pumps=Turbine-driven
manufacturer=Armstrong Siddeley
thrust=8,000 lbf

The Armstrong Siddeley Screamer was a rocket engine intended to power the Avro 720 manned interceptor aircraft (Avro's alternative to the SR.53). Thrust was variable, up to a maximum of 8,000 lbf. [cite journal
title=The Armstrong Siddeley Screamer, a Powerful Rocket Motor from Coventry
journal=Flight
date=27 July 1956
url=http://www.cue-dih.co.uk/aerospace/aeropdfs/htp_for_prop.pdf] [cite journal
title=Rockets for Aircraft Propulsion
author=S. Allen
journal=The Aeroplane
date=7 Dec 1951]

Work on the Screamer started in 1946, with the first static test in March 1954. The programme was cancelled, as was the Avro 720, before flight testing. cite book
title=A Vertical Empire: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme, 1950-1971
author=C.N. Hill
date=2001
publisher=Imperial College Press
isbn=1860942687
page=p. 28
url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AzoCJfTmRDsC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Armstrong+Siddeley+Screamer&source=web&ots=ck6yofvq2e&sig=a-FxkPHOMzLu_t1dJV3x3ffyV7k&hl=en]

In 1951, a Gloster Meteor F.8 was experimentally fitted with a Screamer mounted below the fuselage. [cite web
author=Keith Meggs
title=A Man and his Machines
url=http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/MEGGS_meteor.html] Fact|date=April 2008

External links

* cite web
title=Sectional drawing of the Screamer
url=http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/photos/aeroenginesjet/images/5577/original.aspx
format=image
publisher= [http://www.flighglobal.com Flight International]

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