Engine – Rolls-Royce Kestrel XVI
In 1925, Rolls-Royce began designing a radically new 12-cylinder engine in which each of the two banks of six cylinders were formed from a single aluminium-alloy block. …
Collection: Aero Engines
Engine – Rolls-Royce Merlin 28 12-Cylinder
The engine on display is one of the marks of Merlin fitted to bomber aircraft. It is representative of all the Merlins used in bomber, fighter and …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Olympus 22R 320
Designed for the BAC TSR2, this engine provided 30610lbs thrust and was fitted with an afterburner (also seen on display next to the TSR2) which gave a …
Engine – Rolls-Royce RB162
This small engine was designed for use in the Trident 3B aircraft providing booster power to improve take-off performance. It provided thrust of 5,250lbs at take-off and …
Engine – Wright R-3350-59 Cyclone
The Wright Cyclone series of aviation engines began life in 1924 as a 435hp single-row radial. By 1936 the series had progressed to development of the giant …
Engine – Nakajima Sakae (Prosperity) 21
This Japanese, 950 hp, 14-cylinder, two-row, air-cooled radial engine was used extensively during the Second World War and powered the Mitsubishi A6M5 ‘Zeke’, Nakajima J1N1 and J1N1-S …
Engine – Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90D Twin Wasp
This is a Type R1830-900, fourteen-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine with a single-stage supercharger. Bore 5.5ins, Stroke 5.5ins. Total displacement 1830cubic inches. Weight 1413lbs. 1200 hp for take-off …
Engine – Pratt & Whitney R985 Wasp Junior
Used to power the de Havilland Beaver, the Pratt and Whitney Wasp Junior is a 450hp, nine-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine.
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah XV
We are not sure of the mark number of this engine as the nameplate was missing on receipt, but it is typical of all the Cheetah engines …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Avon R.A.3-101
The Avon was tested in mid 1947. At 6000lb static thrust it made its first public display at the 1948 Farnborough Show in a Lancastrian flying test-bed …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major IA ‘Civet’
Early in 1934 A.V. Roe acquired a licence to build the Cierva C30A two-seat autogiro (140hp SS Genet Major 1A) including the whole of the rotor system. …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Dart RDa 3 Mk.506
This is a famous and very successful turbo-prop engine, the design of which commenced in 1945. Test bed aircraft included the Lancaster (1947) and the Dakota (1949). …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Mamba
The Mamba has virtually a straight-through air flow system, its diameter (less than 30ins measured over the cowling) is remarkably small and the frontal area only about …
Engine – Rolls-Royce Derwent
The Derwent 1 was designed to the same diameter as the Welland as it had to fit the same Meteor nacelle. It was designed to produce 2000lb …
Engine – Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 200
The Sapphire engine is a turbojet with an axial-flow compressor and an annular combustion chamber of the Armstrong Siddeley vaporising type. It was the first British turbojet …