Originally Posted by
treadigraph
This one has an R2800 and a Grumman Guardian prop - sadly from the purist point of view - but it sounds brilliant and doesn't half go; and I suspect the R2800 is less troublesome than a Centaurus...
There's a hell of a lot of cogs in a Centaurus, and double the usual number of bits of metal sliding against each other. Troublesome might be an understatement... It's like Bristol asked themselves, "How can we make it more complicated? How can we make it harder to fix?" and gave out bonuses to anyone who came up with answers. Lovely engine though. A mighty power plant in comparison to that tinny little Merlin lawnmower engine
