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 unmistakable ...

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 ...

Merlin 45 aeroplane engine, made by Rolls-Royce Ltd, Crewe, c.1940. 12 cylinder arrangement with the lower dual ignition sectioned for demonstration purposes and fitted with electric motor to turn it ...