• Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Avon
    The Rolls-Royce Avon was the first axial flow jet engine designed and produced by Rolls-Royce. Introduced in 1950, the engine went on to become one of...
    27 KB (2,955 words) - 20:54, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Holdings
    Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011. The company owns Rolls-Royce, a business...
    65 KB (6,005 words) - 15:58, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Conway
    dramatically at the end of the war and in 1946 Rolls-Royce agreed that existing engines like the Rolls-Royce Avon were advanced enough to enable a start to...
    20 KB (2,544 words) - 10:11, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Nene
    The Rolls-Royce RB.41 Nene is a 1940s British centrifugal compressor turbojet engine. The Nene was a complete redesign, rather than a scaled-up Rolls-Royce...
    22 KB (2,874 words) - 08:24, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Compressor stall
    prevention may include an anti-stall tip treatment of the casing. The Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engine was affected by repeated compressor surges early in...
    16 KB (2,222 words) - 11:26, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Merlin
    The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litre (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first...
    88 KB (11,043 words) - 05:40, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sud Aviation Caravelle
    The short-range, five-abreast airliner is powered by two aft-mounted Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines, allowing a clean low wing. The configuration was...
    61 KB (7,128 words) - 16:25, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Limited
    Rolls-Royce Limited was a British luxury car and later an aero-engine manufacturing business established in 1904 in Manchester by the partnership of Charles...
    45 KB (5,382 words) - 17:53, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Supermarine Swift
    predecessors' Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal flow turbojet engine with the axial-flow Rolls-Royce AJ.65 turbojet, which became the famed Avon series. The...
    27 KB (3,321 words) - 09:11, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for English Electric Lightning
    Lightning's design is the vertical, staggered configuration of its two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines within the fuselage. The Lightning was designed and...
    111 KB (14,329 words) - 19:33, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saab 35 Draken
    35B prototype. The engine used was a slightly modified British made Rolls-Royce Avon Mk.48A (Swedish designation RM6BE), engine number 3459. The Saab 35...
    86 KB (9,168 words) - 17:19, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hawker Hunter
    early 1950s. It was designed to take advantage of the newly developed Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engine and the swept wing, and was the first jet-powered aircraft...
    99 KB (11,599 words) - 22:33, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saab 32 Lansen
    aside due to technical difficulties in favour of the license-built Rolls-Royce Avon powerplant instead. On 3 November 1952, the first prototype performed...
    28 KB (3,483 words) - 11:13, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thrust2
    October 1983 to 25 September 1997. The Thrust2 is powered by a single Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine sourced from an English Electric Lightning, and has a configuration...
    13 KB (1,472 words) - 16:33, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for General Electric J79
    the U.S. market the benefits of a bypass engine over the existing Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet. In 1959 the gas generator of the J79 was developed as a stationary...
    19 KB (2,429 words) - 21:50, 24 September 2024
  • starters used on a number of jet engines, including such engines as the Rolls-Royce Avon, which were used in the English Electric Canberra and Hawker Hunter...
    5 KB (729 words) - 15:29, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for De Havilland Comet
    previously specified Halford H.1 Goblin engines, four new, more-powerful Rolls-Royce Avons were to be incorporated in pairs buried in the wing roots; Halford...
    109 KB (13,602 words) - 08:14, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire
    a number of US designs. The Sapphire's primary competitor was the Rolls-Royce Avon. Design evolution of the Sapphire started at Metropolitan-Vickers (Metrovick)...
    13 KB (1,471 words) - 11:53, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Short Sperrin
    being the first aircraft to receive production Rolls-Royce Avon engines; other engines such as improved Avon models and the de Havilland Gyron would also...
    20 KB (2,592 words) - 23:46, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Olympus
    The Rolls-Royce Olympus (originally the Bristol B.E.10 Olympus) was the world's second two-spool axial-flow turbojet aircraft engine design, first run...
    19 KB (2,099 words) - 23:05, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Avro Canada Orenda
    Turbine Division. Similar to other early jet engines in design, like the Rolls-Royce Avon or General Electric J47. Over 4,000 Orendas of various marks were delivered...
    14 KB (1,886 words) - 15:24, 11 December 2023
  • Navy ships "Avon" (song), a song by Queens of the Stone Age "Avon 1", a song from the album A Bugged Out Mix by Miss Kittin Rolls-Royce Avon, a jet engine...
    4 KB (517 words) - 10:08, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Volvo Aero
    undertook the licensed manufacture of several engines, such as the Rolls-Royce Avon (referred to in Swedish Air Force service as the RM5 and RM6) and the...
    16 KB (1,696 words) - 08:05, 13 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gatwick Aviation Museum
    Rolls-Royce Avon 122 Rolls-Royce Avon 208 Rolls-Royce Avon 301 Rolls-Royce Avon RA2 Rolls-Royce Dart Rolls-Royce Derwent Rolls-Royce Griffon 58 Rolls-Royce...
    8 KB (626 words) - 16:56, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for English Electric Canberra
    for production, the turbojet engines were replaced by more powerful Rolls-Royce Avon R.A.3s, and distinctive teardrop-shaped fuel tanks were fitted under...
    119 KB (14,413 words) - 23:37, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Phantom I
    The Rolls-Royce Phantom was Rolls-Royce's replacement for the original Silver Ghost. Introduced as the New Phantom in 1925, the Phantom had a larger engine...
    13 KB (1,298 words) - 07:47, 1 August 2024
  • gives examples of these internal forces for two early jet engines, the Rolls-Royce Avon Ra.14 and the de Havilland Goblin. The engine thrust acts along the...
    12 KB (1,595 words) - 23:18, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for CAC Sabre
    CAC Sabre (redirect from Avon Sabre)
    the Rolls-Royce Avon R.A.7, which was planned to be also used in the CAC CA-23 previously, rather than the General Electric J47. In theory, the Avon was...
    16 KB (1,641 words) - 23:52, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Supermarine 545
    crescent wing and a more powerful powerplant in the form of the reheated Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engine; amongst its performance capabilities, Supermarine...
    13 KB (1,238 words) - 13:07, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dassault Mirage III
    powered by a licence-built variant of the Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet (used by the CAC Sabre). While an experimental Avon-powered Mirage III was built as a prototype...
    100 KB (12,240 words) - 02:32, 30 October 2024