Aircraft Type Index

Aircraft Engine index

                   

 

The Rolls Royce R Aircraft Engine

The Rolls-Royce R was an aircraft racing engine designed mainly by Arthur Rowledge based on the existing Rolls-Royce Buzzard engine, it first ran in April 1929 and a total of only nineteen examples had been produced by 1931 but this was enough to change the course of history. The Schneider Trophy seaplane race was won for the third successive year by the Rolls-Royce R which under the terms of the race meant Great Britain held the trophy for ever more.

Rolls Royce R Racing Aircraft Engine

 

The Rolls-Royce R went on to hold Air Speed, Land Speed and Water Speed World Records, but most importantly of all, it formed the basis of the design of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine which powered many important allied aircraft in WW2 (Spitfires, Huricanes, Mustangs, Lancasters and warhawks) and undoubtedly empowered the RAF's pilots to victory in the Battle of Britain.

The fuel used contained no petrol, the best mixture proving to be:

  • 30% Benzole
  • 60% Methanol
  • 10% Acetone
  • 4.2 cc of Tetra-ethyl lead per gallon
 

Terms & Limitations of the Rolls Royce R Picture use

This picture of a Rolls Royce R is Copyright © June 2014 Siteseen Ltd. We only authorise non-commercial picture use and particularly encourage their use for educational purposes. This Rolls Royce R picture is not in the Public Domain.

Limitations of use:

1) Siteseen Ltd. must be credited as the copyright holders wherever our copyrighted pictures or content are used.
2) For internet use, no more than three individual pictures shall be used on any given URL or website and a link back to this site must be provided.
3) Use of this Rolls Royce R picture, or any of our pictures on websites re-distributing copyright free material is strictly prohibited.
Need more Information? - Visit our copyright page via our main index

 
 

Rolls Royce R Aircraft Engine picture and Specifications

 

Free Rolls Royce R Pictures - Copyright - Copy - Right - Educational - Rolls Royce R - Resource - Gallery - JPEGS - Pictures - Photos - Photographs - Rolls Royce R - Photos - Pic - Pics - Graphics - Vivid - Striking - Copy - Right - Detailed - Clear - Rolls Royce R - JPEGS - Educational - Resource - Pic - Pics - Rolls Royce R - Pictures - Images - Colorful - Beautiful - Pretty- Piture - Visuals - Rolls Royce R - Pitures - Fotos - Fotographs - Graffics - Imiges - Illustrations - Pitures - Grafics - Rolls Royce R - Graffics - Imiges - Prints - Free Rolls Royce R Pictures - history of aircraft - aircraft pictures - plane pictures - aircraft photos - aircraft photographs - plane photos - plane pictures - plane photographs - History of Modern American Millitry Aircraft and Recognition - Warbird