Rolls Royce Avon

[pauljdh]

Yup, Spey RB244 and others...the new engines on the drawing boards (3 shaft Trent replacements) have RB designations too. Todays Trents' full nameplate designation is RB211 Trent 900 etc........)

Mave said:

RB199?

[selnic]

RB199 as used in the Tornado

[z06tim]

selnic said:

RB199 as used in the Tornado

RB199 in the Tornado was the only engine produced by the Turbo Union consortium, which included Rolls Royce and two other partners (Italian and German, I believe).

[AnotherClarkey]

RB162?

[jmilsom]

Avon engines were built in derby and industrial currently overhauled in Rolls Wood Group, HAL and Ts&s (also some none approved places like score and alba power).

Engine test for industrial avons was at ansty, HAL (india), RWG in aberdeen, Ts&s in abu dhabi and a few other places.

Industrial avons are still knocking around and doing well.

Ansty is still operating as a Rolls Royce site but only manufacturing for blades and casings for Trent/Trent XWB

the overhaul business closed last year which seen the overhaul of engines like Tyne, Olympus, Spey, RTM322, RB199, EJ200, Gem, previous before that pegasus, aero olympus, gnome, proteus, rb211 aero and industrial, some industrial avon, industrial trent, viper and a few more which i have probably forgot.

The avon is a great engine to work on tho !

[RizzoTheRat]

Nicely modular too, we used to use single Avon combustion chambers as preheaters for some of the rigs at Pyestock, try doing that with an EJ200

[wildcat45]

RTM helicopter engines. I'm guessing they're not really Rolls Royce but license built.

[Mave]

wildcat45 said:

RTM helicopter engines. I'm guessing they're not really Rolls Royce but license built.

Depends on what you mean by "not really Rolls Royce". It was designed and built as a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca (hence RTM), until TM bought out the RR share a few years ago.

[wildcat45]

Mave said:

Depends on what you mean by "not really Rolls Royce". It was designed and built as a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca (hence RTM), until TM bought out the RR share a few years ago.

I see. I don't know why I thought they were Italuan built under license with RR. Nice to know what RTM stands for too.

Cheers.

[RizzoTheRat]

There's a lot of collaborative stuff goes on, eg there was the BR BMW/Rolls Royce) family of business jet engines, and the WR21 which was developed under Westinghouse but built by a team lead by Northrop Grumman, with RR building the core and NG doing the intercooler and recuperator.

Plus RR bought Allison and continued manufacturing existing designs under the RR name.

[Mave]

wildcat45 said:

Mave said:

Depends on what you mean by "not really Rolls Royce". It was designed and built as a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca (hence RTM), until TM bought out the RR share a few years ago.

I see. I don't know why I thought they were Italuan built under license with RR. Nice to know what RTM stands for too.

Cheers.

Similarly, the MTR390 was named after the MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce partnership.
For anorak interest, the "322" in RTM322 was named after the study architecture - 3 stages of HP compressor, then 2 each of HP and LP turbine.

[wildcat45]

Thanks for the anorak info. I'll find a reason to use it soon.