Napier Sabre

DADE · **Joined:** Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:45 pm **Posts:** 226

Somebody asked about Napier Sabre manuals, but at the time we had nothing. This booklet has turned up and maybe of interest.

airnutz · **Posted:** Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:02 pm

What a glorious piece of engineering...sure would love to hear the H-24 in the wild. One of our Brit friends on the Flypast forum said...in effect..."There were no engineers available to get the Napier Sabre running again as those chaps had long ago all been shuffled off to the looney houses due to the demands of keeping the beast in service."

James D · **Posted:** Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:39 am

Fascinating!
Also I draw technical illustrations for my work, so it's doubly of interest.

DADE · **Joined:** Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:45 pm **Posts:** 226

For you James D

Shawn M · **Joined:** Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:16 pm **Posts:** 22

that is fantastic!
what a treasure

James D · **Posted:** Wed Jul 24, 2019 10:45 am

Brilliant stuff.

airnutz · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2019 3:13 pm

Animation can be helpful. Courtesy of the Hawker Tempest website and animator Sergio Pasquali...
http://www.hawkertempest.se/index.php/c ... o-pasquali

DADE · **Joined:** Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:45 pm **Posts:** 226

What a great forum for these types of planes and the engines it used. Thanks airnutz.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

From my files

Napier Sabre engine mounted on test rig

Sabre engine fitted to Vickers Warwick III

Napier hanger with Tempest NX-238 & an Avro Lincoln

Avro Lincoln RX-402 entering Napier hanger on skat

A ground crew switches out a Typhoon’s Napier Sabre engine

OZFURYFAN · **Posted:** Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:36 pm

Mark, you are a legend!! Those pics are awesome, love the one of the truck & display engine, fascinating insight into a unique engine!

DADE · **Joined:** Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:45 pm **Posts:** 226

Well done Mark, as usual lovely pictures. Thank goodness that the jet engine came along just when the engines using propellers were hitting problems with power and reliability.

airnutz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:55 pm

DADE wrote:

What a great forum for these types of planes and the engines it used. Thanks airnutz.

Yer welcome...imagine all that motion going on internally at almost 4000 rpm in the Mk VII? A few grains of sand or a healthy backfire and the wheels come off the cart.. :shock:

DADE · **Joined:** Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:45 pm **Posts:** 226

Some more Napier Sabre diagrams

DADE · **Joined:** Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:45 pm **Posts:** 226

OZFURYFAN · **Posted:** Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:42 am

Dade, if you ever decide to copy that manual I would love a copy, I do a little work on sleeve valve radials:)) Pete

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