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The General Electric J85 is a small single-shaft turbojet engine. Military versions produce up to 3,500 lb f (16 kN) of thrust dry; afterburning variants can reach up to 5,000 lb f (22 kN). The engine, depending upon additional equipment and specific model, weighs from 300 to 500 pounds (140 to 230 kg). It is one of GE's most successful and ...
The Historic Army Aircraft Flight ( HAAF) is a charitable trust which preserves and maintains former British Army Air Corps (AAC) aircraft in flying condition. It thus brings the history of British Army flying to life. It serves as a 'living museum' for ex-service personnel commemorative and memorial purposes, as an aid to recruiting, and for ...
1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash. / 51.8522; -2.5874. V9977 was an Handley Page Halifax II that had been sent to the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at RAF Defford to be used as a flying testbed for the H2S radar . On the afternoon of 7 June 1942, one of its Rolls-Royce Merlin engines caught fire and led to the aircraft ...
British Airways Flight 268 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to London Heathrow. On February 20, 2005, the innermost left engine burst into flames triggered by an engine compressor stall almost immediately after takeoff. The Boeing 747-400 continued to fly across the United States, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean with its three ...
[2] Forms part of the UK Military Flying Training System listed below but operated by RAF. BAE Systems Hawk T.2: United Kingdom: Jet: Jet trainer: 2009: 28: 28 [2] Forms part of the UK Military Flying Training System listed below but operated by No. IV (R) Squadron & No. XXV(F) Squadron; aircraft to remain in service until 2040. [38] [39 ...
The UK-headquartered Rolls-Royce Group is the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines (behind General Electric). [102] [103] It has over 50,000 employees, of whom about 23,000 are based in the United Kingdom. [66] In 2014, Rolls-Royce purchased the 50% Daimler had in the R-R engine business, paying 2'430 million € for it.
Rolls-Royce aircraft gas turbine engines (53 P) Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines (21 P) Rotron aircraft engines (2 P)
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Aircraft using power components are referred to as powered flight. [1] Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many small UAVs have used electric ...