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Rolls-Royce Eagle

Index Rolls-Royce Eagle

The Rolls-Royce Eagle was the first aircraft engine to be developed by Rolls-Royce Limited. [1]

86 relations: Admiralty, Airco DH.10, Airco DH.16, Airco DH.4, Airco DH.9, Aircraft engine, ANEC III, BAT F.K.26, Bill Gunston, Blackburn Blackburd, Camshaft, Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Claudel-Hobson, Compression ratio, Curtiss Model H, Curtiss Wanamaker Triplane, Derby, Derby Silk Mill, Dornier Do E, Dornier Do J, Epicyclic gearing, Fairey Campania, Fairey III, Felixstowe F.2, Felixstowe F.3, Felixstowe F.5, Felixstowe Fury, Felixstowe Porte Baby, Flathead engine, Grahame-White G.W.E.7, Handasyde H.2, Handley Page Type O, Handley Page Type W, Handley Page V/1500, Hawker Horsley, Henry Royce, Horsepower, Johannesburg, Kent, List of aircraft engines, London, Martinsyde F.1, Mercedes D.I, Mercedes D.II, Overhead camshaft, Piston, Port Elizabeth, Rohrbach Ro III, Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines, Rolls-Royce Condor, ..., Rolls-Royce Falcon, Rolls-Royce Hawk, Rolls-Royce Limited, Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2, Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4, Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7, Science Museum, London, Short Bomber, Short Shirl, Short Type 184, Sopwith Atlantic, Sopwith Wallaby, South African Air Force Museum, South African National Museum of Military History, Spark plug, Sunbeam Matabele, Supermarine Commercial Amphibian, Supermarine Sea Eagle, Supermarine Swan, Time between overhauls, Transatlantic flight, Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, V12 engine, Van Berkel W-B, Vickers F.B.11, Vickers Valparaiso, Vickers Vernon, Vickers Viking, Vickers Vimy, Vickers Vulcan, War Office, Wight Converted Seaplane, World War I, 23-class airship. Expand index (36 more) »

Admiralty

The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.

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Airco DH.10

The Airco DH.10 Amiens was a British twin-engined medium bomber designed and built towards the end of the First World War.

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Airco DH.16

The Airco DH.16 was a British four-seat commercial biplane of the 1910s designed by Geoffrey de Havilland, the chief designer at Airco.

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Airco DH.4

The Airco DH.4 was a British two-seat biplane day bomber of the First World War.

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Airco DH.9

The Airco DH.9 (from de Havilland 9) – also known after 1920 as the de Havilland DH.9 – was a British single-engined biplane bomber developed and deployed during the First World War.

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Aircraft engine

An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power.

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ANEC III

The ANEC III was a 1920s British six-seat passenger and mail carrier aircraft built by Air Navigation and Engineering Company Limited at Addlestone, Surrey.

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BAT F.K.26

The BAT F.K.26 was a British single-engined four-passenger biplane transport aircraft produced by British Aerial Transport Company Limited of London at the end of World War I.

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Bill Gunston

Bill Gunston OBE FRAeS (1 March 1927 - 1 June 2013) was a British aviation and military author.

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Blackburn Blackburd

The Blackburn Blackburd was a British prototype single-engine torpedo bomber developed by Blackburn Aircraft in 1918 as a replacement for the Sopwith Cuckoo.

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Camshaft

A camshaft is a shaft to which a cam is fastened or of which a cam forms an integral part.

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Canada Aviation and Space Museum

The Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Musée de l'Aviation et de l'Espace du Canada) (formerly the Canada Aviation Museum and National Aeronautical Collection) is Canada's national aviation history museum.

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Claudel-Hobson

Claudel-Hobson was a series of British carburettors manufactured by H. M. Hobson (Aircraft and Motor) Components Ltd. First introduced in 1908, they were widely used on British car and aircraft engines in the early 20th Century.

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Compression ratio

The static compression ratio of an internal combustion engine or external combustion engine is a value that represents the ratio of the volume of its combustion chamber from its largest capacity to its smallest capacity.

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Curtiss Model H

The Curtiss Model H was a family of classes of early long-range flying boats, the first two of which were developed directly on commission in the United States in response to the ₤10,000 prize challenge issued in 1913 by the London newspaper, the Daily Mail, for the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic.

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Curtiss Wanamaker Triplane

The Wanamaker Triplane or Curtiss Model T, retroactively renamed Curtiss Model 3 was a large experimental four-engined triplane patrol flying boat of World War I. It was the first four-engined aircraft built in the United States.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Derby Silk Mill

Derby Silk Mill, formerly known as Derby Industrial Museum, is a museum of industry and history in Derby, England.

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Dornier Do E

The Dornier Do E was a small German flying boat of 1924, designed for reconnaissance missions.

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Dornier Do J

The Dornier Do J Wal ("whale") was a twin-engine German flying boat of the 1920s designed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke.

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Epicyclic gearing

An epicyclic gear train (also known as planetary gear) consists of two gears mounted so that the center of one gear revolves around the center of the other.

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Fairey Campania

The Fairey Campania was a British ship-borne, patrol and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War and Russian Civil War.

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Fairey III

The Fairey Aviation Company Fairey III was a family of British reconnaissance biplanes that enjoyed a very long production and service history in both landplane and seaplane variants.

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Felixstowe F.2

The Felixstowe F.2 was a 1917 British flying boat class designed and developed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe during the First World War adapting a larger version of his superior Felixstowe F.1 hull design married with the larger Curtiss H-12 flying boat.

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Felixstowe F.3

The Felixstowe F.3 was a British First World War flying boat, successor to the Felixstowe F.2 designed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe.

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Felixstowe F.5

The Felixstowe F.5 was a British First World War flying boat designed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN of the Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe.

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Felixstowe Fury

The Felixstowe F.4 Fury (serial N123), also known as the Porte Super-Baby, was a large British, five-engined triplane flying-boat designed by John Cyril Porte at the Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe, inspired by the Wanamaker Triplane/Curtiss Model T. At the time the Fury was the largest seaplane in the world, the largest British aircraft, and the first aircraft controlled successfully by servo-assisted means.

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Felixstowe Porte Baby

The Felixstowe Porte Baby (also known as the Porte F.B.2) was a British reconnaissance flying boat of the First World War, first flying in 1915.

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Flathead engine

A flathead engine, otherwise sidevalve engine,American Rodder, 6/94, pp.45 & 93.

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Grahame-White G.W.E.7

The Grahame-White G.W.E.7 was a British twin-engined transport biplane, designed by M Boudot and built by Grahame-White Aviation Company at Hendon.

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Handasyde H.2

The Handasyde H.2 was a six seat airliner built in the UK in the early 1920s.

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Handley Page Type O

The Handley Page Type O was a biplane bomber used by Britain during the First World War.

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Handley Page Type W

The Handley Page W.8, W.9 and W.10 were British two- and three-engine medium-range biplane airliners designed and built by Handley Page.

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Handley Page V/1500

The Handley Page V/1500 was a British night-flying heavy bomber built by Handley Page towards the end of the First World War.

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Hawker Horsley

The Hawker Horsley was a British single-engined biplane bomber of the 1920s.

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Henry Royce

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE (27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933) was an English engineer and car designer who, with Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, founded the Rolls-Royce company.

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Horsepower

Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power (the rate at which work is done).

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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List of aircraft engines

This is an alphabetical list of aircraft engines by manufacturer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Martinsyde F.1

The Martinsyde F.1 was a British two-seat biplane fighter designed and built by Martinsyde Limited, only two prototypes were built.

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Mercedes D.I

The Mercedes D.I was a six-cylinder, water-cooled, SOHC valvetrain inline engine developed in Germany for use in aircraft in 1913.

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Mercedes D.II

The Mercedes D.II was a six-cylinder, SOHC valvetrain liquid-cooled inline aircraft engine built by Daimler during the early stages of World War I. Producing about 110 to 120 hp, it was at the low-end of the power range of contemporary engines, and was generally outperformed by rotaries whose power-to-weight ratio tended to be much better.

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Overhead camshaft

Overhead camshaft, commonly abbreviated to OHC, is a valvetrain configuration which places the camshaft of an internal combustion engine of the reciprocating type within the cylinder heads ("above" the pistons and combustion chambers) and drives the valves or lifters in a more direct manner compared with overhead valves (OHV) and pushrods.

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Piston

A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms.

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Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth or The Bay (iBhayi; Die Baai) is one of the largest cities in South Africa; it is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, east of Cape Town.

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Rohrbach Ro III

The Rohrbach Ro III was a twin-engined, all-metal flying boat built in Germany in the mid-1920s.

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Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines

Rolls-Royce produced a range of piston engine types for aircraft use in the first half of the 20th Century.

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Rolls-Royce Condor

The Rolls-Royce Condor aircraft piston engine was a larger version of the Rolls-Royce Eagle developing up to 675 horsepower (500 kW).

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Rolls-Royce Falcon

The Rolls-Royce Falcon is an aero engine developed in 1915.

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Rolls-Royce Hawk

The Rolls-Royce Hawk was a British aero engine designed by Rolls-Royce in 1915.

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Rolls-Royce Limited

Rolls-Royce was a British luxury car and later an aero engine manufacturing business established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

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Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost

The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost name refers both to a car model and one specific car from that series.

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Royal Aircraft Establishment

The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), before finally losing its identity in mergers with other institutions.

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Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2

Between 1911 and 1914, the Royal Aircraft Factory used the F.E.2 (Farman Experimental 2) designation for three quite different aircraft that shared only a common "Farman" pusher biplane layout.

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Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4

The Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4 was a twin-engine biplane aircraft built by the Royal Aircraft Factory in 1916.

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Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7

The Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7 was a British two-seat light bomber and reconnaissance biplane designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory and built under contracts by the Coventry Ordnance Works, Austin, Napier and Siddeley-Deasy for the Royal Flying Corps.

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Science Museum, London

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.

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Short Bomber

The Short Bomber was a British two-seat long-range reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo-carrying aircraft designed by Short Brothers as a land-based development of the very successful Short Type 184 (of which more than 900 were built and many exported).

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Short Shirl

The Short N.1B Shirl was a British single-seat biplane,intended to carry heavy torpedoes from early aircraft carriers late in World War I. It met its specifications but planned production was ended with the Armistice of 1918.

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Short Type 184

The Short Admiralty Type 184, often called the Short 225 after the power rating of the engine first fitted, was a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying folding-wing seaplane designed by Horace Short of Short Brothers.

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Sopwith Atlantic

The Sopwith Atlantic was an experimental British long-range aircraft of 1919.

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Sopwith Wallaby

The Sopwith Wallaby was a British single-engined long-range biplane built during 1919 by Sopwith Aviation Company at Kingston upon Thames.

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South African Air Force Museum

The South African Air Force Museum houses exhibits and restores material related to the history of the South African Air Force.

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South African National Museum of Military History

The South African National War Museum in Johannesburg was officially opened by Prime Minister Jan Smuts on 29 August 1947 to preserve the history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War.

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Spark plug

A spark plug (sometimes, in British English, a sparking plug, and, colloquially, a plug) is a device for delivering electric current from an ignition system to the combustion chamber of a spark-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel/air mixture by an electric spark, while containing combustion pressure within the engine.

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Sunbeam Matabele

The Sunbeam Matabele was a British 12-cylinder aero engine that was first flown in 1918.

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Supermarine Commercial Amphibian

The Supermarine Commercial Amphibian was a British passenger-carrying flying boat designed by Reginald Mitchell and built by the Supermarine Aviation Works.

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Supermarine Sea Eagle

The Supermarine Sea Eagle was a British, passenger–carrying, amphibious flying boat.

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Supermarine Swan

The Supermarine Swan was a 1920s British experimental amphibian aircraft built by Supermarine at Woolston.

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Time between overhauls

Time between overhauls (abbreviated as TBO or TBOH) is the manufacturer's recommended number of running hours or calendar time before an aircraft engine or other component requires overhaul.

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Transatlantic flight

A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa or the Middle East to North America, Central America, or South America, or vice versa.

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Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown

British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.

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V12 engine

A V12 engine is a V engine with 12 cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of six cylinders each, usually but not always at a 60° angle to each other, with all 12 pistons driving a common crankshaft.

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Van Berkel W-B

The Van Berkel W-B was a single engine Dutch long range reconnaissance seaplane built in the early 1920s for work in the Dutch East Indies.

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Vickers F.B.11

The Vickers F.B.11 was a prototype British three-seat escort fighter of the First World War.

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Vickers Valparaiso

The Vickers Valparaiso was a British light bomber biplane of the 1920s.

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Vickers Vernon

The Vickers Vernon was a British biplane troop carrier"Aircraft of the Royal Air Force Since 1918" Owen Thetford, Putnam & Co.

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Vickers Viking

The Vickers Viking was a British single-engine amphibious aircraft designed for military use shortly after World War I. Later versions of the aircraft were known as the Vickers Vulture and Vickers Vanellus.

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Vickers Vimy

The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by Vickers Limited.

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Vickers Vulcan

The Vickers Vulcan was a British single-engine biplane airliner of the 1920s built by Vickers Limited at Brooklands Aerodrome, Surrey.

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War Office

The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.

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Wight Converted Seaplane

The Wight Converted Seaplane was a British twin-float patrol seaplane produced by John Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft).

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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23-class airship

The 23 class were rigid airships produced in the United Kingdom during the First World War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Eagle

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