Hearing two Rolls-Royce Merlin 25 V-12 engines come to life on a de Havilland Mosquito is something I’ll never forget. At East Kirkby, I watched as the ground crew prepped the legendary wooden warbird ...

In the 1930s, Rolls-Royce had developed one of the finest pieces of engineering ever conceived: the Merlin engine. Planners knew they had something special in the supercharged V-12 engine ...