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    The Rolls-Royce RB.37 Derwent is a 1940s British centrifugal compressor turbojet engine, the second Rolls-Royce jet engine to enter production. It was...
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    Rolls-Royce Derwent, with a design target of 5,000 lbf (22 kN), making it the most powerful engine of its era. First run in 1944, it was Rolls-Royce's third...
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    The Rolls-Royce RB.23 Welland was Britain's first production jet engine. It entered production in 1943 for the Gloster Meteor. The name Welland is taken...
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    The Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent was the first Rolls-Royce turboprop engine. The Trent was based on an invention by Sir Frank Whittle. It was a Derwent Mark...
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    the expected 22.26 kN (5,004 lbf), necessitating the addition of a Rolls-Royce Derwent V booster engine in the rear fuselage, exhausting at the base of...
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    The Klimov RD-500 was an unlicensed Soviet copy of the Rolls-Royce Derwent V turbojet that was sold to the Soviet Union in 1947. The Klimov OKB adapted...
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    engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce, who were seeking out a manufacturer to produce a new trainer aircraft powered by their Derwent turbojet engine. Fokker...
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  • engineer. He was employed first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent, and later at Bristol Aero Engines...
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    was a proposal to re-engine the aircraft with Soviet copies of the Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet as well as to modify it for night fighting, but neither...
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    1948. These aircraft were designed for British engines, Rolls-Royce Derwent V and Rolls-Royce Nene, acquired by the Soviets in 1947 and then copied as...
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  • as Mayor between 1991 and 1995. Rolls-Royce Derwent, jet engine Derwent (patent), patent indexing system Baron Derwent, of Hackness in the North Riding...
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  • Adrian Lombard (category Rolls-Royce people)
    successful Rolls-Royce Derwent and Nene engines, which powered most of the first generation of British jet fighters. In 1943, Rover and Rolls-Royce completed...
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    allowed extended use without overhaul, engines such as the Rolls-Royce Welland and Rolls-Royce Derwent, and by 1949 the de Havilland Goblin, being type tested...
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    with a nose intake and ventral exhaust for the main Derwent engine, the Ariete added a Rolls-Royce Soar RS.2 auxiliary turbojet engine to provide additional...
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    The Rolls-Royce Eagle Mk XXII is a British 24-cylinder, sleeve valve, H-block aero engine of 46 litre (2,807 cubic inches) displacement. It was designed...
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    up the front leading edge of the fin. The NF.12 also had the new Rolls-Royce Derwent 9 engines and the wings were reinforced to handle the new engine...
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    four-engined bomber (the Lyulka TR-1 powered Ilyushin Il-22 and the unbuilt Rolls-Royce Derwent powered Ilyushin Il-24), the Ilyushin Design Bureau began development...
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  • 2B/500 Rolls-Royce Avon Mk.203 Rolls-Royce Derwent V Rolls-Royce Derwent 8 Rolls-Royce Eagle Rolls-Royce Hawk Rolls-Royce Griffon Rolls-Royce Kestrel...
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    Rover design for their own jet engine development (it became the Rolls-Royce Derwent engine). After the Second World War, the company abandoned Helen...
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    Nevertheless, Avro continued with its plan to build the jet, selecting four Rolls-Royce Derwents to replace the two Avons. Chief Designer James C. Floyd was upset...
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    The Rolls-Royce RB.39 Clyde was Rolls-Royce's first purpose-designed turboprop engine and the first turboprop engine to pass its civil and military type-tests...
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    was deemed excellent and manufacture of a prototype powered by a Rolls-Royce Derwent V began in 1955. This engine was selected as it was readily available...
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    of the Avro 707 instead. All Avro 707s were powered by a single Rolls-Royce Derwent centrifugal turbojet engine. The air intake on the first prototype...
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  • straight winged fighter similar to the earlier Yak-19, but powered by a Rolls-Royce Derwent V, OKB-115 swiftly produced the Yak-25, which blazed several trails...
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    semi-monocoque with an elliptical cross-section housing a single Rolls-Royce Derwent 5 engine with the air intake in the nose and the ducting surrounding...
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    Double Wasp engine weighed almost a ton—half as much again as the V12 Rolls-Royce Merlin and twice as much as the 9-cylinder Bristol Mercury that powered...
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    Rolls-Royce Condor Rolls-Royce Condor diesel Rolls-Royce Conway Rolls-Royce Crecy Rolls-Royce Dart Rolls-Royce Derwent Rolls Royce Eagle (H-24) Rolls-Royce...
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    three-engined '73' design which used a pair of Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets under the wings and a single Rolls-Royce Derwent V in the tail, in an installation much...
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    service for Meteor I at 150 hours time between overhaul (TBO). Rolls-Royce B.37 Derwent I Combined design based on W.2B/500 and Rover B.26 for Meteor III...
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  • believed to be the thinnest yet flown in the world, and an imported Rolls-Royce Derwent V engine, rated at 15.6 kN (3,500 lbf), mounted in the nose. The...
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