TIL Rolls-Royce Merlin engine used in Spitfire fighter plane was not named after the wizard from Arthurian legends, but a type of falcon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rol…
A Rolls Royce Merlin V12 engine starting up v.redd.it/qk0e3m6pq2c81
Land Rover with a Rolls Royce Merlin swap reddit.com/gallery/qso534
land rover with rolls royce merlin. the official car of “i have you right where i want you, mr. bond!”
Rolls Royce Designed, Built by Packard, the Merlin V-12 for the P-51 Mustang.
(+4524) TIL The Rolls Royce Merlin V12 aviation engine created so much thrust from the exhaust, engineers were able to angle the exhaust backwards to gain 10 mph in the Spitfire it powered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rol…
Big Old ROLLS ROYCE MERLIN Engines COLD STARTING UP AND COOL SOUND youtube.com/watch?v=lQAhA…
land rover with rolls royce merlin. the official car of “i have you right where i want you, mr. bond!”
Same Marianas Airport, two beautiful twin engine warbirds released within 3 weeks of each other, one from DCS & the other from FS2020. The British pilots are always portrayed in movies as stoic and mild-mannered, Yet the Allison V-1710 shows a much milder start-up than the Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12. v.redd.it/1l4kuxjzf0s71
Final Objective - 1955 Chevy Sports Coupe with 3000hp 27-litre V12 Rolls Royce Merlin engine
The "Beast" Grand Prize concept (The Beast, Rolls Royce Merlin powered longe boi)
So, this will be my last minute entry for the Season 5 concept, and my most, funky looking one. The "Beast" is a plane engine powered "shooting brake" or, something, as I have 0 clue what to call, this. But, it's... long. Like, extremely long, because of the 27L V12 up front your weight distribution will be about 95 / 5 weight distribution up front. and body roll to boot. But overall, the front is a spider eye'd... thingy. Just take the images.
Interior View (I tried, theres very little interior views of this car)
Final Objective - This is Rod Hadfield's 1955 Chevy Sports Coupe with a 3000hp 27-litre V12 Rolls Royce Merlin engine.
Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine youtu.be/-fo7SmNuUU4
TIL that UK based WWII historians agree that the iconic Rolls Royce Merlin engine was named after a man that in all likelihood never actually existed.
Relying on oral history, but this <should> be an air compressor from a Rolls Royce Merlin MK3 engine - debris from a plane shot down in Battle of Britain. Spitfire or Hurricane most likely.
An Avro Lancastrian III flying on the power of two Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which have replaced the two outer Rolls Royce Merlins on this engine test-bed, 24 September 1946 [1500x1182]
An Avro Lancastrian III flying on the power of two Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which have replaced the two outer Rolls Royce Merlins on this engine test-bed, 24 September 1946 [1500x1182]
Jumping on the 'CAD to Reality' train with my 3D printed Rolls Royce/Packard Merlin crankcase. imgur.com/a/jS5vsRd
Airport scrap run. Rolls royce merlin engine v12. American Maytag casting (not scrap). And some misc airplanes. reddit.com/gallery/m7eb1f
Evolution of the "Spanish Messerschmitts", 1944-1965. During WWII, Spain got a license to built Bf 109s, but had to go with Damiler Benz DB-605 engines. The firstn operational aircraft (HA-1109) had Hispano-Suiza 12Z engines, while the later aircraft (HA-1112) had Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. reddit.com/gallery/mw588t
The long-range P-51 Mustang fighter was invaluable to the Allied victory, enabling resumption of strategic bombing after heavy losses suffered by unescorted bombers in 1943. Developed for export to Britain, modified models used Rolls-Royce Merlin engines and became America's most capable fighters.
Workers at a Rolls Royce factory lowering the crankshaft assembly into the crank case of a Merlin aircraft engine, England, 1942
The “Beast” powered by a 27 litre Rolls Royce Merlin aircraft engine
No ID needed. Just wanted to share this Rolls-Royce Merlin engined Hercules Beetle. youtube.com/watch?v=Tp0k6…
Rolls Royce Merlin vs Griffon Aircraft Engines Cold Starting Up youtube.com/watch?v=UXV0G…
The Hawker Monoplane F.36/34 interceptor prototype Hurricane, registration K5083 powered by a 1,025 h.p. Rolls-Royce Merlin “C” engine, driving a Watts two-blade fixed pitch wooden propeller designed by Sydney Camm and flown by test pilot Sammy Wroath in flight on 16 March 1936.
Twin turbo Rolls Royce Merlin V12 swapped Crown Vic anyone? reddit.com/gallery/l8x2ra
Workers at a Rolls Royce factory lowering the crankshaft assembly into the crank case of a Merlin aircraft engine, England, 1942
TIL that in the 70's an eccentric Englishman made a car with a 27 litre 1000hp merlin engine and got sued by Rolls Royce for using a RR grill on it. classicdriver.com/en/arti…
My very first print on my new Mono X; a 1/24th scale crankcase for a Rolls Royce Merlin Engine.
My basically completed diorama of the Eduard Spitfire Mk.IXc Early with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Based in Goubrine Airfield, 150km South of Tunis, Tunisia. reddit.com/gallery/j53f2p
Following up on yesterday’s post - a worker at a Rolls Royce factory checking the alignment of the pinions in the reduction gear of a Merlin aircraft engine, England, 1942
The Manufacture of Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines During WWII youtube.com/watch?v=-fo7S…
Close ups of a Packard built Rolls Royce Merlin V12 reddit.com/gallery/lpw4t5
TIL during WW2 when Ford produced the Merlin engine they claimed they couldn't following the sent plans. Rolls-Royce, designer of the Merlin, assumed Ford was incapable of meeting their high standards, only to learn that the tolerances were too loose and didn't meet the precision required for cars tested.com/art/makers/492…
Workers at a Rolls Royce factory lowering the crankshaft assembly into the crank case of a Merlin aircraft engine, England, 1942
27L Rolls Royce Merlin powered custom "The Beast"
TIL The Rolls Royce Merlin V12 aviation engine created so much thrust from the exhaust, engineers were able to angle the exhaust backwards to gain 10 mph in the Spitfire it powered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rol…
Extended MK1 Land Rover. Designed to take a Rolls Royce Merlin, but sadly (legal reasons) fitted with a Rover V8.
Avro Lancastrian test bed where the two outboard Merlin engines have been replaced by Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines. 1946. The Lancastrian first flew in 1943 as a Lancaster conversion into civil and military transport.
Beatrice (Tilly) Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990) "If it weren’t for a young engineering graduate who innovated the solution to a carburettor problem on the Spitfire and Hurricane Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, Britain might have lost WWII almost before it had even begun."
Rolls-Royce Merlin V12. youtube.com/watch?v=NU3l-…
A Dubbo specialty, local man Lucky Keizer took a Rolls Royce Merlin engine from a RAF Mosquito, chopped off two cylinders and built a bike around it.
