At the front was the compressor section, containing the ten-stage compressor housed in a tapering magnesium alloy shell.
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Due to the extremely high pressures that would develop, an air cooler was positioned between the first and second stage compressors.
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Differences included a completely new combustion section and a 15-stage compressor based on that of the Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire.
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The third prototype had a Piaggio P . VII C . 45 with two-stage compressor, giving 390 hp at 4, 000 m.
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Consequently, the slope of effective surge line becomes shallower, in much the same way as closing variable stator vanes in a multi-stage compressor.
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The Atar 8 and 9 used a 9-stage compressor similar to the 101, but including a steel first stage in order to improve damage resistance.
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The basic design of the single shaft Astazou has a two-stage compressor, with the first stage an axial and the second stage a radial design.
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In 1950 Nino Farina won the inaugural World Championship of Drivers in a Alfetta 159 ( an evolution of the 158 with a two-stage compressor ).
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The turbine was a new design GE Frame 5 simple cycle gas turbine with a sixteen-stage compressor, ten combustion chambers and a two-stage turbine.
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In the case of small reciprocating compressors, the compressor flywheel may drive a cooling fan that directs ambient air across the intercooler of a two or more stage compressor.
