Armstrong Siddeley Stentor

Stentor
Stentor rocket engine showing the large main nozzle (top) and the smaller cruise nozzle (bottom)
Type Rocket engine
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Armstrong Siddeley
First run c.1960
Major applications Blue Steel missile

The Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, latterly Bristol Siddeley BSSt.1 Stentor, was a two-chamber HTP rocket engine used to power the Blue Steel stand-off missile carried by Britain's V bomber force.[1][2] The high thrust chamber was used for the first 29 seconds, after which it was shut down and a smaller cruise chamber was used for the rest of the powered flight.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Flight, 1960 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Millard, Douglas (2001). The Black Arrow Rocket. Science Museum. p. 23-24. ISBN 1 900747 41 3. In early 1956, the government contracted Armstrong Siddeley to develop a second HTP engine, this time for a quite different kind of vehicle called Blue Steel. [...] Blue Steel's engine was called Stentor
  3. ^ "Stentor rocket motor". Skomer. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008.
  4. ^ "Rocket Engines for Piloted Aircraft". Bristol Siddeley Magazine. 1960.
  5. ^ "Blue Steel in Action". Flight: 329. 11 March 1960.