The first, designated as F36/34, resulted in the Hawker Hurricane, while the second, called F10/35, created the Supermarine Spitfire. The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine became the perfect fit ...

variants of the Spitfire and the Mustang share an engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin (the P-51 used a licensed copy of the Merlin built by Packard). The Merlin was produced in several variants in the ...

In the 1930s, Rolls-Royce ... Merlin engine. Planners knew they had something special in the supercharged V-12 engine, which would go on to power fighters such as the Supermarine Spitfire, and ...

In the last season of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson ... by a Heinkel He 111 bomber engine (the Brutus) and a British car powered by a Rolls-Royce V-12 from a Spitfire fighter (the Bentley Meteor).

a nod to the Spitfire's own landing gear. Then of course, there's the engine. Each of the 12 Aeroboats scheduled for production will be equipped with a reconditioned, fuel-injected Rolls-Royce ...

the 350bhp Rolls-Royce Liberty, which it was designed to replace. The engine was essentially a modified version of the Merlin aero-engine: the iconic motive force behind the Spitfire, the Hurricane, ...

This fire-breathing 27-liter 1,800-horsepower Roll-Royce Merlin aero engine famously powered the Spitfire ... occur in the Festival Auction, where a Rolls-Royce Merlin Aero engine will be sold ...

over 168,000 merlin engines were built. 45 merlin engines produce the same power as 1 Rolls Royce Trent A90.The Merlin ... the production of the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane.

It is a luxury speedboat inspired by the legendary Spitfire fighter plane and has that iconic aircraft’s same beating Rolls-Royce engine at its heart. Only 10 of the new Aeroboat superyacht's ...