The Rolls-Royce RB.80 Conway was the first turbofan jet engine to enter service. Development started at Rolls-Royce in the 1940s, but the design was used...
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The Rolls-Royce Spey (company designations RB.163 and RB.168 and RB.183) is a low-bypass turbofan engine originally designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce...
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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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Saro proposed project P.192, a 670-ton seaplane powered by 24 Rolls-Royce RB.80 Conway jet engines with 18,500 lb (8,400 kg) of thrust each. The aircraft...
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List of aircraft engines (redirect from List of Rolls-Royce engines)
Pegasus Rolls-Royce Pennine Rolls-Royce Peregrine Rolls-Royce R Rolls-Royce RB.44 Tay Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent Rolls-Royce RB.106 Rolls-Royce RB.108 Rolls-Royce...
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US military designation of TF33. Aware of the competition from the Rolls-Royce Conway turbofan, Pratt & Whitney decided to develop the JT3D turbofan from...
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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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power it, a more powerful engine would be needed. By this time, the Rolls-Royce Conway was entering service, and the Pratt & Whitney JT3D was following close...
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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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designated as the P.1125, which was to have been powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce RB.133 engines. While the prototype would be furnished with a Gyron P.S...
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driven by its own turbine. The first three-spool engine was the earlier Rolls-Royce RB.203 Trent of 1967. The Garrett ATF3, powering the Dassault Falcon 20...
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000 lbf (67 kN) Rolls-Royce Conway RCo.7 turbofans in 1957. It was transferred to Rolls-Royce as the Conway test bed. It flew with the Conways, the first turbofans...
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aerodynamically as a twin-engined aircraft above Mach 1.6". Rolls-Royce had a design proposal, the RB.169, for the aircraft at the time of Concorde's initial...
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replacement, early 1960s. Design featured two Rolls-Royce Spey engines with vectored thrust and two Rolls-Royce RB.108 lift jets in the nose to lower approach...
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smaller decks of British carriers, and as a result, consulted Rolls-Royce about whether the RB-168 Spey turbofan, then in development for use in the Blackburn...
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types of early jet engine, including the de Havilland Ghost and the Rolls-Royce Nene. They retained the two inboard piston engines, the jets being housed...
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version was eventually selected. The primary engine selection was the Rolls-Royce RB.106, an advanced two-spool design offering around 21,000 pounds-force...
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and build the RB199 engines for the aircraft, with ownership split 40% Rolls-Royce, 40% MTU, and 20% FIAT. At the conclusion of the project definition phase...
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to Rolls-Royce for Avon engine tests. Crashed on approach to Hucknall with engine fire, coming down just outside field perimeter, killing Rolls-Royce test...
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structure then production aircraft. The aircraft had been testing the Rolls-Royce Conway installation and was returning from a test flight via Syerston. See...
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