The Napier Rapier was a British sixteen-cylinder, air-cooled aero engine in an H pattern, designed by Frank Halford and built by Napier shortly before the Second World War. It was the first of Napier H-cylinder engines: the H-block is essentially two opposed inline engines side by side driving two crankshafts, which was expected to give more power and higher speed from a given frontal area than a large liquid-cooled V engine and ran very smoothly. The Rapier V displaced 8.8 litres and gave 340 horsepower. It suffered many of the problems later seen in the Dagger and Sabre. The Fairey Seafox and the Short S.20 Mercury were powered by Rapiers.
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The Napier Rapier was a British 16-cylinder H pattern air-cooled aero engine designed by Frank Halford
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The Napier Rapier was a British 16-cylinder H pattern air-cooled aero engine designed by Frank Halford
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built by Napier & Son
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The Napier Rapier was a British 16-cylinder H pattern air-cooled aero engine
Invented By: Frank Halford, Lead, designer
The Napier Rapier was a British 16-cylinder H pattern air-cooled aero engine designed by Frank Halford
Part Of: Fairey Seafox, Design and development, applications
The Fairey Seafox and Short S.20 were both powered by the Napier Rapier
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