Rolls-Royce Peregrine
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The Rolls-Royce Peregrine was a 21-litre, 885-horsepower liquid-cooled V12 aero engine designed and built by the British manufacturer Rolls-Royce in the late 1930s. It was essentially the ultimate dev
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A Rolls-Royce Peregrine-powered Westland Whirlwind
Rolls-Royce Vulture
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The Rolls-Royce Vulture was a British aero engine developed shortly before the Second World War that was designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited. The Vulture used the unusual "X-24" configuration, w
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…propeller reduction gear. Four Kestrel/Peregrine cylinder banks attached to one crankcase and driving a common crankshaft would produce the contemporary Rolls-Royce Vulture, a 1,700-horsepower (1,300 kW) X-24 which would be used for bombers. Aircraft designs rapidly increased in size and power requirements to the point…
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Avro Manchester II, showing two exhaust dampers
Vulture powered Hawker Tornado prototype, with two rows of ejector exhausts