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The Bristol Tramp was a British steam-powered passenger and airmail transport aircraft designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was built but never flew. DevelopmentThe Tramp was a development of Bristol's earlier Pullman passenger aircraft. In 1919, Frank Barnwell entered discussions with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company about the feasibility of using flying boats as auxiliaries to ocean liners.[1] The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company had very limited experience with internal combustion engines, but long-term and deep knowledge of steam turbine powerplants, and so suggested the use of a steam turbine to power the aircraft. As Bristol's heavy bomber, the Braemar – the progenitor of the Pullman – had originally been designed to have a central engine room with driveshafts to wing-mounted propellors, the Pullman seemed a suitable candidate as a testbed for the installation of a steam turbine engine room. The powerplant was to consist of two 1,500 hp (1,120 kW) steam turbines of the Ljungstrøm type, with closed-circuit high-pressure flash boilers.[1] The unprecedented 3,000 hp (2,240 kW) would be delivered though driveshafts and clutches to four-bladed tractor propellers mounted on each middle wing (the Braemar/Pullman/Tramp family were triplanes). In the end, the only problem encountered with the steam turbine itself was that it delivered far too much power for the Tramp airframe, which had been designed to handle the 1,600 hp (1,190 kW) of four 400 hp (300 kW) Liberty L-12 engines. The main problem turned out to be designing a reliable lightweight closed-circuit boiler and condenser.[1] Two examples of the Tramp were completed in 1921, powered by four 230 hp (170 kW) Siddeley Puma piston engines, but the power transmission system, particularly the clutches, gave continual trouble, and neither ever flew. They were moved to Farnborough in 1922 where they were used as ground test rigs for several years.[1] The Tramp Boat was a proposed flying boat development of the Tramp. Variants
Experimental steam-powered triplanes, originally described as spares carriers with four {{convert|230|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Siddeley Puma engines in a central engine room. Two built but never flown.
Proposed triplane flying-boat variant. Specifications{{aircraft specifications|plane or copter?=plane |jet or prop?=prop |ref=[2] |crew=three |capacity= |length main=60 ft |length alt=18.29 m |span main=96 ft |span alt=29.26 m |height main=20 ft |height alt=6.10 m |area main=2,284 ft² |area alt=212.2 m² |empty weight main=12,000 lb |empty weight alt=5,440 kg |loaded weight main=18,795 lb |loaded weight alt=8,527 kg |max takeoff weight main= |max takeoff weight alt= |engine (prop)=Lungstrøm |type of prop=steam turbine |number of props=2 |power main=1,500 hp |power alt=1,140 kW |max speed main= |max speed alt= |max speed more= |cruise speed main= |cruise speed alt= |range main= |range alt= |ceiling main= |ceiling alt= |climb rate main= |climb rate alt= |loading main= |loading alt= |power/mass main= |power/mass alt= |guns= |bombs= }} See also{{aircontent|related=
|similar aircraft= |lists= |see also= }} References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|author=Barnes C.H.|year=1964|title=Bristol Aircraft Since 1910|publisher=Putnam & Company Ltd|isbn=0-370-00015-3}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Bristol Tramp 1921|url=http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/bristol_tramp.php|publisher=Aviastar|accessdate=11 October 2015}} External links
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