Rolls-Royce Merlin
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rolls-royce-merlin-170-6831451
title:
Rolls-Royce Merlin
text:
The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litre capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first ran it in 1933 as a private venture. Initially known as the PV-12, it was later called Merlin following the company convention of naming its four-stroke piston aero engines after birds of prey. The engine benefitted from the racing experiences of precursor engines in the 1930s. After several modifications, the first production variants of the PV-12 were comple
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Aircraft engine family by Rolls-Royce
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T21:37:17Z
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13
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