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    The Rolls-Royce Pegasus is a British turbofan engine originally designed by Bristol Siddeley. It was manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. The engine is not...
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    Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011. The company owns Rolls-Royce, a business...
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    Harrier and which became known as the Rolls-Royce Pegasus when Rolls-Royce took over that company. Two Bristol Pegasus engines remain airworthy in 2010, powering...
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  • Thumbnail for General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136
    Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 was an afterburning turbofan engine being developed by General Electric, Allison Engine Company, and Rolls-Royce (Allison was...
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    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...
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    The Rolls-Royce LiftSystem, together with the F135 engine, is an aircraft propulsion system designed for use in the STOVL variant of the F-35 Lightning...
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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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  • Bristol Pegasus, a radial aircraft engine Rolls-Royce Pegasus, a turbofan aircraft engine, originally manufactured by Bristol Northrop Grumman Pegasus (Pegasus...
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    988 Related development Rolls-Royce Pegasus Comparable engines Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire Ishikawajima-Harima J3 Rolls-Royce Avon Related lists List...
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    the Pegasus two-spool arrangement. At Rolls-Royce, where the three-shaft RB211 engine was in development, three shafts were considered better. Rolls-Royce...
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    2015-03-26. Rolls-Royce, Jet Engine, p. 69. Rolls-Royce, Jet Engine, p. 70. "How a jet engine runs on its "nerves"". Feb 1953. Rolls-Royce, Jet Engine...
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    The Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo RB.193 is a vectored thrust turbofan engine designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce and MAN Turbo in the mid-1960s. The engine...
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    designs of the Do 31 used more than four Rolls-Royce RB162s; the availability of more powerful versions of the Pegasus engine enabled the reduction to four...
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    500 L), 2,608 lb (1,183 kg) drop-tanks for ferry Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Pegasus 103 vectored-thrust high-bypass turbofan engine, 21,500 lbf (96 kN)...
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  • production version for RAF, powered by 19,000 lbf (84.7 kN) Rolls-Royce Pegasus 6 (Pegasus Mk 101 in RAF service). A total of 61 built. Harrier GR.1A Upgraded...
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    wingtips. To meet the heavier weight of the aircraft, Rolls-Royce was expected to design a Pegasus engine variant that would have produced 4,000 lbf (18 kN)...
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    upgrades to become GR7s as well. Some GR7s were equipped with uprated Rolls-Royce Pegasus engines, correspondingly redesignated as GR7A; these Harriers had...
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    for strike, reconnaissance and fighter roles. It features a single Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan engine with two intakes and four vectorable nozzles. It...
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  • English mathematician and jet engine engineer. He was employed first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent...
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    Instead of lift engines or using a direct lift engine like the Rolls-Royce Pegasus in the Harrier jump jet, the X-35B was powered by the F119-PW-611...
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    Griffon Rolls-Royce Hawk Rolls-Royce Kestrel Rolls-Royce Merlin Rolls-Royce Nene Rolls-Royce Olympus Rolls-Royce Pegasus Rolls-Royce Pennine Rolls-Royce Peregrine...
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    two pairs of nozzles, front and rear, in the same manner as the Rolls-Royce Pegasus, and fuel was burned in the fan air before it left the front nozzles...
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  • Rolls-Royce Phantom IV is a British automobile produced by Rolls-Royce. Only eighteen were made between 1950 and 1956, sold only to buyers whom Rolls-Royce...
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    efforts concentrated on the development of an improved Pegasus engine, designated the Pegasus 15, which was being tested by Bristol Siddeley. During August...
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    commercial "dual FADEC" engine. The first FADEC in service was the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine developed for the Harrier II by Dowty and Smiths Industries...
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    about the duct centreline. An example of 2D thrust vectoring is the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine used in the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, as well as in the AV-8B...
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  • Rolls-Royce Kestrel IB Rolls-Royce Merlin III Rolls-Royce Merlin XX Rolls-Royce Merlin 23 Rolls-Royce Pegasus Rolls-Royce Spey Rolls-Royce R Sunbeam Arab I...
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    other features; there was also considerable interest in adopting the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine. BAC also revised their designs in line with the requirement...
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  • aircraft's basic configuration and to validate the performance of the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine that powered it. While financial backing was issued by NATO's...
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    lb/(lbf.h)21.9g/(kN.s) PCB off Related development Rolls-Royce Pegasus Comparable engines Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo RB193 Related lists List of aircraft engines...
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