Talk:Armstrong Siddeley ASX

Question?
does the ASP for the turboprop mean something as ASX does? or is it Asp the snake which naturally leads into Python etc. GraemeLeggett 11:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I wondered that as well, would like to know. As the Python was initially known as the A.S.P someone spotted it and all the AS turbines became named after snakes, I bet that's what happened. Just got a new (1946!) book which will help with both these articles. Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)    19:37, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I suspect that the 'A.S.X.' designation just stood for Armstrong Siddeley aXial but I may be wrong. That's assuming that the 'P' in 'A.S.P.' originally stood for 'Propeller' before the engine was named 'Python'. But these are just guesses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 18:02, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Citable, but not credible?
< Military thrust, static: 26,000 lbf (115.65 kN) at 8,000 rpm at sea level >

It is with some diffidence that I suggest that this may be something of an overstatement of the engine's capability - has the source (Wilkinson 1946) been transcribed correctly? 86.189.3.153 (talk) 23:05, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Turbine stages
If Wilkinson is correct in stating that the ASX had a two-stage turbine, then the conversion to the ASP and Python turboprops did not involve the addition of another stage, since, according to the 1954 'Flight' review referenced in the Python article, its turbine too had two stages 109.144.245.127 (talk) 14:14, 14 April 2013 (UTC)