{"id":12323,"date":"2019-12-21T23:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=12323"},"modified":"2019-12-21T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:39:19","slug":"accell-a-mostly-british-coalition-going-for-300-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/accell-a-mostly-british-coalition-going-for-300-mph\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCELL: A (Mostly) British Coalition Going for 300 MPH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolls-Royce is perhaps the epitome of Britishness, going back to 1904,<\/a> when Henry Royce, founder of a successful mechanical\/electrical business, met Charles Rolls, a successful car dealer in London.\u00a0 Together, the founded the company which came to be known as Rolls-Royce.\u00a0 By 1906, their Silver Ghost was known as \u201cthe best car in the world.\u201d\u00a0 That quality was inherent in their first aircraft engine, the Eagle, \u201cproviding some half of the total horsepower used in the air war by the allies.\u201d\u00a0 It provided the power in 1919 for the first direct flight across the Atlantic and the first flight from England to Australia \u2013 both in Vickers Vimy aircraft.\u00a0 This led to racing success, with early V-12 engines by R-R powering Schneider Cup racers in the 1930\u2019s, leading to the Merlin, which powered Hawker Hurricanes, Vickers Spitfires, and P-51 Mustangs.\u00a0 Their current ACCELL project hopes to continue that tradition.<\/p>\n

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WWI Eagle aircraft engine production line. R-R Eagles would power over 50 percent of allied craft in the Great War<\/p><\/div>\n

Rolls-Royce would love to have another round of victories to continue their successes, and now are unveiling something that has been seen mostly in computer renderings for the last several years.\u00a0 Others, including YASA (Yokeless and Segmented Armature) axial flux motors<\/a>, \u201cAre smaller and lighter than any other\u00a0motors\u00a0in their class due to our more efficient use of key magnetic and structural materials. The\u00a0YASA\u00a0(Yokeless and Segmented Armature)\u00a0motor\u00a0topology also significantly reduces manufacturing complexity, making the\u00a0motors\u00a0ideally suited to automated volume production,\u201d according to the company.\u00a0 Nothing could be more British than the motor\u2019s Oxford pedigree, a product of research that company founder and Chief Technology Officer Tim Woolmer<\/a> performed at the University.<\/p>\n

The P1E<\/strong><\/p>\n

Below, we see the result of work by Electroflight.\u00a0 They created the P1E, a special race plane with two YASA motors swinging counter-rotating propellers.<\/p>\n

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Electroflight P1E with English Electric Lightning fighter – both have two power units<\/p><\/div>\n

Electroflight recently partnered with Ansys, an American software firm (with nine offices in Great Britain) contributing high-level visualization to the design process.<\/p>\n