The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a British 37-litre (2,240 cu in) capacity, 60-degree V-12, liquid-cooled aero engine designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited...
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The Rolls-Royce Griffon engine was designed in answer to Royal Navy specifications for an engine capable of generating good power at low altitudes. Concepts...
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Rolls-Royce Goshawk Rolls-Royce R Rolls-Royce Peregrine Rolls-Royce Merlin Rolls-Royce Exe Rolls-Royce Vulture Rolls-Royce Crecy Rolls-Royce Griffon Rolls-Royce...
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also the basis of the Rolls-Royce/Rover Meteor tank engine. Post-war, the Merlin was largely superseded by the Rolls-Royce Griffon for military use, with...
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Supermarine Spitfire variants: specifications, performance and armament (section The Rolls-Royce Merlin and Griffon engines)
improved engines, starting with the Rolls-Royce Merlin and progressing to the bigger and more powerful Rolls-Royce Griffon. The evolution of high octane aviation...
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Supermarine Spitfire (section Griffon-engined variants)
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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de-rated R engine, known as the Griffon, was tested in 1933, but it was not directly related to the production Rolls-Royce Griffon of 1939, of the same exact...
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1500 Griffon a 1950s experimental fighter aircraft Rolls-Royce Griffon, a British aero engine CCGS Griffon, a Canadian Coast Guard vessel HMCS Griffon, Canadian...
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the Second World War as a successor to the Spitfire. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, it had a radical new wing design to allow safe operations...
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later versions were powered by the larger and even more powerful Rolls-Royce Griffon engine. The type was ordered in bulk to equip the FAA. In addition...
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The Supermarine Seafang was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon–engined fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine to Air Ministry specification N.5/45 for naval...
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The Rolls-Royce Buzzard is a British piston aero engine of 36.7 litres (2,240 cubic inches) capacity that produced about 800 horsepower (600 kW). Designed...
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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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series engines. This new airframe later formed the basis for the Rolls-Royce Griffon powered Spitfires. This article presents a history of the Spitfire...
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either a single or twin-seat arrangements, either powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, or combining a larger airframe with a Napier Sabre engine...
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Coffman cartridges used for starting large aero engines such as the Rolls-Royce Griffon as used in the later Marks of Supermarine Spitfire. The name, derived...
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dual-choke updraft carburetors for aero-engines such as the Rolls-Royce Merlin and Rolls-Royce Griffon. Herbert Skinner (1872–1931), pioneer motorist and an...
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contra-rotating propellers are the Avro Shackleton, powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, and the Fairey Gannet, which used the Double Mamba Mk.101...
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Baker, the second prototype was delayed. A modified MB 3 with a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, rather than the Napier Sabre of the MB 3, was planned as...
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The North American Mustang Mk.X, also known as the "Rolls-Royce Mustang" or Mustang X, was an experimental variant of the North American Mustang I, (factory...
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Rolls-Royce Griffon 85 piston engine and contra-rotating propellers. One prototype (LA610) built. Tempest Mk. IV Tempest variant with a Rolls-Royce Griffon...
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northwest slope, looking south Aircraft wreckage on northwest slope, Rolls-Royce Griffon V12 aero engine 56°00′49″N 4°08′23″W / 56.01374°N 4.13979°W /...
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nicknamed The Growler, on account of the engine noise from the four Rolls-Royce Griffon engines. The first operational deployment of the Shackleton occurred...
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(2,387 kW) at 18 psi boost. The Rolls-Royce design team realised that producing a scaled-up version of their Griffon V-12 engine would lead to excessively...
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020 imp gal (1,225 US gal; 4,637 L) in bomb-bay tanks Powerplant: 4 × Rolls-Royce Merlin 24/2 V-12 liquid-cooled piston engines, 1,620 hp (1,210 kW) each...
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make major modifications to the plane, including installation of a Rolls-Royce Griffon 57 engine and contra-rotating propellers from an Avro Shackleton...
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decided to fit an in-line Rolls-Royce Griffon Mk 61 (2,035 hp/1,517 kW). Engines for a prototype were leased from Rolls-Royce. It was intended that any...
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during World War II with engines such as the British Rolls-Royce Merlin and Rolls-Royce Griffon, the Soviet Klimov VK-107 and Mikulin AM-38, the American...
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airframe with Rolls-Royce Griffon 56 engine, one prototype WB781 first flown 20 September 1949. Blackburn B-54/YA.8 Three-seat version with a Griffon 56 engine...
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head of the Rolls-Royce aero engine division, wanted to stop work on the Exe, Peregrine, and Vulture to concentrate on the Merlin and Griffon engines. An...
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