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...
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Power-to-weight ratio: 1.03 hp/lb (1.69 kW/kg) Rolls-Royce R Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Comparable engines Allison V-1710 Daimler-Benz DB 603 Daimler-Benz...
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Rolls-Royce produced a range of piston engine types for aircraft use in the first half of the 20th century. Production of own-design engines ceased in...
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6:1 Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Comparable engines Rolls-Royce Exe Daimler-Benz DB 604 Napier Sabre Related lists List of aircraft engines A special...
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The Rolls-Royce RB211 is a British family of high-bypass turbofan engines made by Rolls-Royce. The engines are capable of generating 41,030 to 59,450 lbf...
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The Rolls-Royce Kestrel (internal type F) is a 21.25 litre (1,295 in³) V-12 aircraft engine from Rolls-Royce. It was their first cast-block engine, and...
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The Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart is a turboprop engine designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited. First run in 1946, it powered the Vickers Viscount...
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systems for aviation and other industries. Rolls-Royce is the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines (after CFM International) and has major businesses...
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The Rolls-Royce Eagle was the first aircraft engine to be developed by Rolls-Royce Limited. Introduced in 1915 to meet British military requirements during...
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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...
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products Motor cars Diesel engines Aero turbine engine components and aircraft piston engines mainly for Rolls-Royce 1971 Other engines and products: B range...
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Historical Series no 16 :Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 1990. ISBN 1-872922-00-7 White, Graham. Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II: History and...
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The Rolls-Royce Meteor later renamed the Rover Meteor is a British tank engine that was developed during the Second World War. It was used in British tanks...
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Flightglobal.com Rubbra, A.A. Rolls-Royce Piston Aero Engines - a designer remembers: Historical Series no 16 :Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 1990. ISBN 1-872922-00-7...
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hp/lb (2.36 kW/kg) Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Related development Rolls-Royce Exe Rolls-Royce Pennine Comparable engines Napier Nomad Napier...
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ratio: 0.75 hp/lb (1.23 kW/kg) Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Related development Rolls-Royce Pennine Comparable engines Allison V-3420 Isotta Fraschini...
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The Rolls-Royce R is a British aero engine that was designed and built specifically for air racing purposes by Rolls-Royce Limited. Nineteen R engines were...
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hp/lb Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Related development Rolls-Royce Kestrel Rolls-Royce R Comparable engines Daimler-Benz DB 600 Fiat AS.3 Rolls-Royce...
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The Rolls-Royce Condor aircraft piston engine is a larger version of the Rolls-Royce Eagle developing up to 675 horsepower (503 kilowatts). The engine first...
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Continental O-300 (redirect from Rolls-Royce Continental O-300)
Continental O-300 and the C145 are a family of air-cooled flat-6 aircraft piston engines built by Teledyne Continental Motors. First produced in 1947, versions...
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ratio: 0.96 hp/lb (1.58 kW/kg) Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Related development Rolls-Royce Exe Comparable engines Allison V-3420 Junkers Jumo 222...
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This is a list of Rolls-Royce Merlin variants. Engines of a similar power output were typically assigned different model numbers based on supercharger...
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Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Related development Rolls-Royce Eagle Related lists List of aircraft engines "World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines -...
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Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire, in a specially modified Vickers Viscount. RB.44 Tay Rolls-Royce development engines only...
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Power-to-weight ratio: 0.82 hp/lb Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Related development Rolls-Royce Crecy Comparable engines Napier Sabre Pratt & Whitney...
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The Rolls-Royce–Bentley L-series V8 engine is an engine introduced in 1959. Built in Crewe, it was used on most Rolls-Royce and Bentley automobiles in...
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power components are referred to as powered flight. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered...
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The Rolls-Royce B range was a range of petrol engines first intended to be installed in a car but in 1943 developed into a range to power the British...
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The Rolls-Royce ACCEL (Accelerating the Electrification of Flight) is an electric aircraft demonstrator developed by Rolls-Royce plc. Rolls-Royce developed...
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Mustang I, (factory designation Model NA-73) where the Allison engine was replaced by a Rolls Royce Merlin. The improvements in performance led to the adoption...
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