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    The Rolls-Royce Kestrel (internal type F) is a 21.25 litre (1,295 in³) V-12 aircraft engine from Rolls-Royce. It was their first cast-block engine, and...
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    Collection Rolls-Royce Eagle (V-12) Rolls-Royce Hawk Rolls-Royce Falcon Rolls-Royce Condor Rolls-Royce Eagle XVI (X-16) Rolls-Royce Kestrel Rolls-Royce Buzzard...
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    single-bay biplane powered by a Rolls-Royce F.XI water-cooled V12 engine (the engine that later became known as the Rolls-Royce Kestrel). It had, as the specification...
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  • The Rolls-Royce Goshawk was a development of the Rolls-Royce Kestrel that used evaporative or steam cooling. In line with Rolls-Royce convention of naming...
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  • the British manufacturer Rolls-Royce in the late 1930s. It was essentially the ultimate development of the company's Kestrel engine, which had seen widespread...
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    further development was the Rolls-Royce R engine. The Buzzard was developed by scaling-up the Rolls-Royce Kestrel Engine. List from Lumsden. Buzzard...
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    The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litre (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first...
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  • " — Henry Tizard, The Rolls-Royce Crecy Previous experience gained between 1927 and 1930 using two converted Rolls-Royce Kestrel engines through an Air...
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    investigated the use of a naturally aspirated version of the Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine. The Kestrel presented a number of advantages, it was not in great demand...
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  • a lengthy development period. The supercharged Rolls-Royce Kestrel and its derivative, the Rolls-Royce Peregrine, were fairly standard designs, with two...
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