page_title: Turbomeca Palas
section_title: Applications
hierarchical_section_title: Turbomeca Palas / Applications
caption_attribution_description: English: Douglas DC-3 of Aigle Azur (France) arriving at Manchester Airport on 3 April 1953. It is equipped with a ventral Turbomeca Palas booster jet engine for "hot and high operations"
context_page_description: The Turbomeca Palas is a diminutive centrifugal flow turbojet engine used to power light aircraft. An enlargement of the Turbomeca Piméné, the Palas was designed in 1950 by the French manufacturer Société Turbomeca, and was also produced under licence by Blackburn and General Aircraft in the United Kingdom and Teledyne Continental Motors in the United States as the Continental Model 320.
context_section_description: Caproni Trento F.5
  Curtiss C-46 Commando (two under the fuselage, first flight in October 1952)
  Curtiss C-46F Commando (two under the wings)
  CVV-6 Canguro Palas
  Douglas DC-3 (as a booster engine)
  Fouga CM-8 R9.8 Cyclope
  Fouga CM-8 R8.3 Midget
  Fouga CM.130
  Ikarus 451
  Ikarus S451M
  Ikarus 452M
  Mantelli AM-12
  Miles Sparrowjet
  Payen Pa 49
  Short SB.4 Sherpa
  SIPA S.200 Minijet
  SIPA S.300
  Somers-Kendall SK-1
  Sud-Ouest Bretagne
caption: Douglas DC-3 of Aigle Azur (France) arriving at Manchester Airport on 3 April 1953. It is equipped with a ventral Turbomeca Palas booster jet engine for "hot and high operations".
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