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    The Rolls-Royce RB.162 is a lightweight British turbojet engine produced by Rolls-Royce Limited. Developed in the early 1960s, it was specially designed...
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    The Rolls-Royce RB.108 was a British jet engine designed in the mid-1950s by Rolls-Royce specifically for use as a VTOL lift engine. It was also used to...
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    Rolls-Royce RB.141 Medway Rolls-Royce RB.145 Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo RB153 Rolls-Royce RB.162 Rolls-Royce RB.175 Rolls-Royce RB.181 Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo...
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    ticket? Don't blame RB Royce Freeman". Orange County Register. Retrieved February 1, 2019. Garcia, Gus (August 13, 2018). "Royce Freeman broke records...
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    venture, Rolls-Royce produced these same designs in England, under separate certification, with model designations beginning RR, e.g. the Rolls-Royce RR C90-12FH...
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    using technology developed for the Rolls-Royce RB.162 lift jet. Both engines were themselves design studies by Rolls-Royce and it was feared that there would...
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    Bristol Siddeley Pegasus 5–2 (Main engine for the Dornier Do 31), Rolls-Royce RB 162-4D (Lift engine for the Dornier Do 31) GEOS, ISEE-B, Ulysses – First...
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    of RB-211 production to Canadian manufacturer Orenda Engines. The British government agreed to approve a large state subsidy to restart Rolls-Royce operations...
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    RB153 turbofan engine. The RB.153 engine was initially a relatively straightforward scaled-up version of the earlier Rolls-Royce RB108 engine that had been...
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    Later revisions of the Avro 776 substituted the RB.178 engine for the newer turbofan, the Rolls-Royce RB211, the development of the latter being supported...
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    own design, designated AW.681. The company had chosen to adopt the Rolls-Royce RB.142 Medway, an in-development turbofan engine, to power the type; according...
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  • engine tested. The RB.39 Rolls-Royce Clyde turboprop runs, combining axial and centrifugal stages in the compressor. Rolls-Royce abandon development...
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    35B prototype. The engine used was a slightly modified British made Rolls-Royce Avon Mk.48A (Swedish designation RM6BE), engine number 3459. The Saab...
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    powerplant had been selected in place of the British-built Canberra's Rolls-Royce Avons as the USAF had placed an emphasis on operations within hot climates...
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    Bristol Siddeley BS.100, Rolls-Royce Medway and Pegasus, Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo RB153/RB193, Rolls-Royce RB.108 and the RB.162. All of the NATO requirements...
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    Power-to-weight ratio: 1.162 hp/lb (1.910 kW/kg) Related development General Electric J35 Comparable engines Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent Related lists List...
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    On 20 September 1945, a heavily modified Meteor I, powered by two Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent turbine engines driving propellers, became the first turboprop...
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    ER.103/B was to have been powered by either a de Havilland Gyron or Rolls-Royce RB.122 and would have accommodated underwing fuel tanks for extended endurance...
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    including the Bristol Orpheus turbojet, The Bristol Olympus, the Rolls-Royce RB.140/RB.141 (Medway) or even Pratt & Whitney's J57. Bristol developed several...
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    to June 1971. In April 1973, XA903 started flying with an underslung Rolls-Royce RB.199 turbofan destined for the Panavia Tornado. XA903 was the last B...
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    centrally mounted turbojet engine; Petter had held discussions with Rolls-Royce Ltd on the topic of the development of a scaled-up derivative of the...
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    effectively a new design. A separate partnership was formed between Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca to develop the Adour afterburning turbofan engine. The...
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    then in development. In 1996, Rolls-Royce and Boeing jointly proposed fitting each B-52 with four leased Rolls-Royce RB211 engines. This would have involved...
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    Premier Joseph Stalin that the USSR buy the reliable, fully developed, Rolls-Royce Nene (having been alerted to the fact that the U.K. Labour government...
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    (4,600 m), despite the British aircraft's more powerful engine (the Rolls-Royce Merlin 45, producing 1,470 hp (1,100 kW; 1,490 PS) at 9,250 ft (2,820 m)...
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    the type using a single large turbofan engine. Originally, the British Rolls-Royce Medway engine had been selected to power the Viggen, which was then considered...
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    drop tanks, and other major systems. One Mirage IIIA was powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon 67 engine capable of generating 71.1 kN (16,000 lbf) of thrust,...
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  • requirement is often incorrectly stated to have required the use of Rolls-Royce Vulture engines. For example, by Thetford, Aircraft of the Royal Air...
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  • reported that Aston Martin's pre-tax losses for 2016 increased by 27% to £162.8 million, the sixth year it continued to suffer a loss. In 2016, the company...
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    J85, the Armstrong-Siddeley Viper ASV11, the Continental Gabizo, the Rolls-Royce RB.108, and the Fairchild J83-R-1 had been studied during the early stages...
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