• The Rolls-Royce Crecy was a British experimental two-stroke, 90-degree, V12, liquid-cooled aero-engine of 1,593.4 cu.in (26.11 L) capacity, featuring...
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    Buzzard Rolls-Royce Goshawk Rolls-Royce R Rolls-Royce Peregrine Rolls-Royce Merlin Rolls-Royce Exe Rolls-Royce Vulture Rolls-Royce Crecy Rolls-Royce Griffon...
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    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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    Bristol Hercules, Centaurus, and the promising but never mass-produced Rolls-Royce Crecy, only to be supplanted by the jet engines. Piccard-Pictet in Switzerland...
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  • looming, encouraged Ricardo to develop what eventually became the Rolls-Royce Crecy engine. In 1931, Harry Ricardo gave a lecture to the Royal Society...
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    7:1 Power-to-weight ratio: 0.82 hp/lb Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines Related development Rolls-Royce Crecy Comparable engines Napier Sabre Pratt...
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    reliability. Turbo-compound versions of the Napier Deltic, Rolls-Royce Crecy, Rolls-Royce Griffon, and Allison V-1710 were constructed but none was developed...
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  • Crécy (comics), a graphic novel set during the Crécy campaign Rolls-Royce Crecy, an aero engine Vickers Wellington or Crecy, a bomber Battle of Crécy...
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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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    seen. Bourke engine Four-stroking Junkers Jumo 205 Kadenacy effect Rolls-Royce Crecy Rotary engine Twingle engine Stroke (engine) Two- and four-stroke...
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    ratio: 8.25:1 Air mass flow: 13.0 lb/s (5.9 kg/s) Comparable engines Rolls-Royce Crecy Dobrynin VD-4K Related lists List of aircraft engines Gunston, Bill...
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  • (1992). Rolls-Royce Dart. Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. ISBN 1-872922-03-1. Nº 18. Nahum; Foster-Pegg; Birch (1994). The Rolls-Royce Crecy. Rolls-Royce Heritage...
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  • The Rolls-Royce Eagle XVI was a British experimental 16 cylinder aero engine designed and developed by Rolls-Royce Limited in 1925. The engine was test...
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    Bristol and Rolls-Royce. Bristol produced the Perseus, Hercules, Taurus and the Centaurus, Napier produced the Napier Sabre, and Rolls-Royce produced the...
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  • Saurer Tartaruga Saurer Steyer Nahkampfkanone 1 Nahkampfkanone 2 Rolls-Royce Crecy: Like the FLB 1000 aero engine, was a two-stroke Diesel converted...
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    The first 50 Mystere IVA production aircraft were powered by British Rolls-Royce Tay turbojets, while the remainder had the French-built Hispano-Suiza...
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    Whitney's F119, with the STOVL variant of the latter incorporating a Rolls-Royce Lift Fan module. Because these were proof of concept demonstrators for...
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    the Rolls-Royce Griffon-engined Mk 24, using several wing configurations and guns. The original airframe was designed to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin...
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    prototypes followed, powered by the Rolls-Royce Tay 250 centrifugal-flow turbojet, an improved version of the Rolls-Royce Nene, built under licence by Hispano-Suiza...
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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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    aircraft also lay with inline engines and began such a design, powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel. Before it was completed Air Ministry specification 16/30 was...
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    Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney F401-PW-400 turbofan engine Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce/Allison XJ99 turbofan engines, 9,000 lbf (40 kN) thrust each (lift-jets)...
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    Stanley Hooker, relatively new to the company after an earlier career at Rolls-Royce, took the project under his wing. He delivered a relatively simple and...
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    Shuttle, Crécy, 2016, p.11. Sharp, Dan; British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle, Crécy, 2016, pp. 18–19. "English Electric-Rolls Royce Napier...
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    Havilland Gipsy Major de Havilland Gipsy Queen Rolls-Royce Avon Rolls-Royce Nene Rolls-Royce Merlin Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 Sunbeam Gurkha Wright R-1820...
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    order in 1937 for two reasons: to provide an alternative engine if the Rolls-Royce Vulture and the Bristol Centaurus failed as the next generation of high...
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  • inlet - both used initially on the two-stroke Crecy - which had been developed and tested by Rolls-Royce for the engine, were not proceeded with. After...
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    Hucknall Aerodrome (category Rolls-Royce)
    aerodrome had been operated by the Merlin Flying Club since 1971 and then by Rolls-Royce Group plc. Before its closure, it was owned and operated by ITP Aero...
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    pre-war Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c reconnaissance aircraft, the new Rolls-Royce Falcon V12 engine gave it the performance of a fighter. Despite a disastrous...
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    Romaero. The short haul, narrowbody aircraft was powered by aft-mounted Rolls-Royce Spey low-bypass turbofans, a configuration similar to the earlier Sud...
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