Vintage Wings of Canada - Aircraft Engines / 03 Rolls Royce Merlin
Bill Maloney 7/29/2009 |
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Packard and Rolls Royce Merlins at other aviation museums in the northeast |
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Packard Merlin V1650 aircraft engine at the Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover, DE | Rolls Royce Merlin at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT |
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Another Rolls Royce Merlin Engine at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope, Ontario | Rolls Royce Merlin engine at the Canadian Air & Space Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Rolls Royce Merlin XX at the RCAF Museum in Trenton, Ontario, Canada |
Number of Cylinders : 12
Displacement: 1,649 ci
Bore: 5.4 inches
Stroke: 6 inches
Compression Ratio: 6:1
Aspiraton: Bendix-Stromberg PD18 Carburetor, Two Stage Supercharger with Water/Methanol Injection
Fuel: 100 octane aviation gasoline
Weight: 1,690lbs
Length: inches
Diameter: inches
Output: 1,735hp at 3,000rpm
First Flight : 1941
Airframes used on: P-51 Mustang, Late P-40 Warhawk, Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito, Lancaster Bomber
Built in:
Cost: $25,000