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). …
Collection: Aero Engines
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 …
Engine – Blackburn Cirrus II
After taking over the Cirrus-Hermes Engineering Company Limited in 1937, the first engine to be designed and built at the Blackburn works at Brough in Yorkshire, was …
Engine – Bristol Hercules 763
This sleeve-valve as its name implies has the inlet and exhaust valves in the form of a sleeve working between the piston and cylinder wall and driven …
Engine – Daimler Benz DB610
The DB610 engine is made by joining two DB605 engines; these are coupled together by means of a clutch and gearbox to drive a single four bladed …
Engine – Rolls-Royce R.B.163 Spey 505-5
One of the first of the by-pass or turbo fan latest technology engines, the Spey entered service in April 1964 and has proved to be a sturdy, …
Engine – de Havilland Ghost 50
The Ghost is larger and more powerful than the Goblin and is again distinguished from the Goblin by having only 10 combustion chambers. The Ghost was developed …
Engine – de Havilland Gipsy 1
We have little information on this engine. It is one of the very early Gipsy types and dates from the late 1920s. Gipsy engines were originally designed …
Engine – Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca R.T.172 Adour 102
The Adour is a twin-shaft turbofan developed jointly by Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom and Turbomeca in France under the administration of Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Limited. Various versions …
Engine – de Havilland Gipsy Major
This is a famous engine and will be remembered by many as the engine which powered the famous DH Tiger Moth, the aircraft which thousands of RAF …
Engine – de Havilland Gipsy Queen 175
This is an inverted air-cooled six-cylinder engine and in general resembles the inverted four-cylinder ones, usually representing developments of the latter type for higher power. Bore 4.72ins, …
Engine – de Havilland Goblin 2
In the race to get a viable engine from Whittle’s design, de Havilland were also asked to develop a gas turbine. Halford, de Havilland’s engine designer, used …