Bristol Jupiter engine

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The Bristol Jupiter engine is a British air-cooled radial aircraft engine from the early 20th century that became widely used and influential in both military and civilian aviation.

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Bristol Jupiter radial engine 3
Bristol Jupiter engine canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aircraft engine
piston engine
acquiredFrom Cosmos Engineering
bore about 5.75 inches
configuration radial
coolingMethod air‑cooled
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
cylinderArrangement single‑row radial
designer Roy Fedden
developedFrom earlier Cosmos Jupiter design
displacement about 28 litres
enteredService 1920s
era early 20th century
firstRunDate early 1920s
fuelType aviation gasoline
historicalSignificance widely used and influential in interwar aviation
influenced Bristol Mercury
Bristol Pegasus
Gnome‑Rhône 9 Jupiter
licenseBuiltBy Gnome‑Rhône
Nakajima
PZL
licenseBuiltIn Czechoslovakia
France
Italy
Japan
Poland
manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company
notableApplication Bristol Bulldog
Handley Page H.P.42
Junkers F.13 (licensed versions)
linked to: Junkers F 13

Potez 29 (licensed versions)
notableVariant Jupiter VI
Jupiter VII
Jupiter VIII
linked to: Jupiter VII
numberOfCylinders 9
powerOutputRange 300–600 horsepower
productionPeriod 1920s–1930s
status obsolete
stroke about 7.5 inches
supercharging some variants supercharged
usedIn airliners
bombers
civil aircraft
fighters
military aircraft
valveType overhead poppet valves

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Roy Fedden workedOn Bristol Jupiter engine
Junkers W 34 powerplant Bristol Jupiter radial engine
linked to: Bristol Jupiter engine
Handley Page HP.42 powerplant Bristol Jupiter radial engine
subject linked to: Handley Page HP.42 airliner
linked to: Bristol Jupiter engine
Bristol Bulldog engineType Bristol Jupiter radial engine
linked to: Bristol Jupiter engine
Roy Fedden designed Bristol Jupiter engine
subject linked to: Fedden