Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines

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A preserved Rolls-Royce Griffon 58, one of the last Rolls-Royce piston engines to be produced. The red and white "dumb bell" object to the left of the engine is an air raid siren exhibit

Teledyne Continental Motors general aviation
engines was carried out by the company in the 1960s and 1970s.

Examples of Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engine types remain airworthy today with many more on public display in museums.

WWI

In 1915, the

airships.[1]

Inter-war years

The Rolls-Royce Kestrel

The

supercharged Peregrine and later the Goshawk.[2]

Developed concurrently with the Kestrel was the unusual Rolls-Royce Eagle XVI X engine that was cancelled in favour of the Kestrel despite performing well on the test stand.

The Buzzard was an enlargement of the Kestrel [3] of Condor size, developed in its most extreme form into the Rolls-Royce R racing engine used for the Schneider Trophy competition.[4]

The Vulture of 1939 was essentially two Peregrines on a common crankshaft in an X-24 configuration, both of these types being deemed unsuccessful.[5]

WWII and beyond

The

RAF fighters the Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, fighter/bomber de Havilland Mosquito, Lancaster and Halifax heavy bombers and also allied aircraft such as the American P-51 Mustang and some marks of Kittyhawk
.

Experimental engines were developed as alternatives for high performance aircraft such as the H-24 configuration

jet engines
precluded significant production of these types.

Production of Rolls-Royce designed aircraft piston engines ceased in 1955 with the last variants of the Griffon.

Teledyne Continental range of light aircraft piston engines including the Continental O-520.[11]

Surviving engines

As of 2017 examples of the Falcon, Griffon, Kestrel and Merlin remain airworthy.[12]

Engines on display

Various types of Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines are on public display at the following museums:

Chronological list

[13]

1915 Rolls-Royce Eagle V-12
The Rolls-Royce Merlin

See also

Related lists

References

Notes

  1. ^ Lumsden 2003, pp.183-190.
  2. ^ Lumsden 2003, pp.190-198.
  3. ^ Lumsden 2003, p.198.
  4. ^ Lumsden 2003, p.199.
  5. ^ Lumsden 2003, p.200.
  6. ^ Lumsden 2003, p.221.
  7. ^ Nahum, Foster-Pegg, Birch 2004.
  8. ^ Rubbra 1990, p.148.
  9. ^ Lumsden 2003, p.201.
  10. ^ Lumsden 2003, p.218.
  11. ^ Gunston 1989, p.42.
  12. ^ See individual articles for details
  13. ^ By first run date

Bibliography

  • Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
    ISBN 1-85260-163-9
  • Nahum, A., Foster-Pegg, R.W., Birch, D. The Rolls-Royce Crecy, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. Derby, England. 1994
    ISBN 1-872922-05-8
  • Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003.
    ISBN 1-85310-294-6
    .
  • 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

Further reading

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