Talk:Short Scylla
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Pegasus XC thrust?=
editWhile researching for this article I came across several different thrust values given for the Pegasus XC e.g.
- 920 hp / 686 kW (German Wiki, WW2 aircraft site etc)
- 919 hp (www.pprune.org/forum/archive ...)
- 910 hp / 680 kW (Century of Flight site)
- 900 hp (Century of Flight site)
- 660 hp / 492 kW (Imperial Airways site)
In the end I chose the last value because it came from the Imperial Airways site and I decided that the operator would know (and because it seemed unlikely that there would be such a leap in engine power from the 595 hp of the Jupiter XFBM to 920 hp; 660 hp seemed more feasible!); but one extremely detailed and accurate site ([1] Brian Cassidy's "Flying Empires") gives 920 hp / 686 kW and I am minded to use these values after all!
What look like a competent source ([2] www.oldengine.org) gives
- HP(max)=790 hp and
- HP(take off)=910 hp, which differs only slightly from Cassidy's figure.
Can anyone help sort this one out? Many thanks! TraceyR 18:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
I've got another source for the 660 hp for the Pegasus XC in the Scylla - i.e ">*Donald, David (Editor) (1997). The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Aerospace Publishing. ISBN 1-85605-375-X. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help) and this seems anout right for 1936 - but much higher values seem to be quoted for installations in other aircraft - i.e. ~900 hp - could it be aircraft specific? Nigel Ish 22:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- The 900hp figures are typos where the author has assumed the hp figures were kW.So the table should read
- 686hp / 511kW (German Wiki, WW2 aircraft site etc)
- 685hp / 511kW (www.pprune.org/forum/archive ...)
- 680hp / 507kW (Century of Flight site)
- 671hp / 500kW (Century of Flight site)
- 660hp / 492kW (Imperial Airways site)
Petebutt (talk) 18:19, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Name—model or just individual?
editDo we know whether the name Scylla properly applies to the model as well as to one individual, or just to that one individual? Does any known source say? I tried to look at the three online sources, but only the Century of Flight one would load for me, and it doesn't say either way. – PointyOintment ❬‽ · ✍❭ 10:52, 23 July 2018 (UTC)