Created by Rolls-Royce in the early 1930s, the Merlin engine was an evolution of an earlier Rolls-Royce project called the PV12 –PV meaning private venture and 12 being the number of ...

There’s nothing like the sound of a Spitfire’s Rolls-Royce Merlin engine - and hearing it at takeoff is pure magic. I captured this iconic aircraft as it roared down the runway, with that ...

“We have many ‘star’ cars to show people including a 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom fitted with a Spitfire Merlin engine and a 1933 Phantom II originally owned by Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhi – the ...

The famous Second World War fighter plane with its rumbling Rolls-Royce Merlin engine will take to the skies for paying customers on May 11 and five dates in June, July, August and September.

Powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, the Lancaster is the most famous and successful RAF heavy bomber from the Second World War. The aircraft flying over London was built in May 1945 and is ...

Regardless of the version, with either Rolls-Royce Merlin or ... aircraft to start. The engine usually fires within two blades and runs like a clock. While the Merlin-engine versions run very ...

The pistol's slide is fitted with ports inspired by the exhaust stacks of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, the sound of which is forever etched in the memory of wartime aviators. The surface of the gun ...

The Hawker became a critical wartime fighter aircraft and featured retractable landing gear and a powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Several versions of the aircraft were created during the war ...

Yet, power alone does not entirely encapsulate its essence. In a nod to its aviation heritage — specifically, the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin engines that powered wartime Spitfires — engineers ...

After logging more than 3,400 test hours on the Pearl 10X and its related Advance2 core demonstrator, Rolls-Royce says it is ...

Rolls-Royce has won a contract to service 130 EJ200 engines, which will continue to power RAF Typhoons until they depart in ...