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Rolls-Royce Buzzard

1920s British piston aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	Buzzard
image	File:Rolls-Royce Buzzard NASM.jpg
caption	Rolls-Royce Buzzard at the National Air and Space Museum
engine_type	Piston V12 engine
manufacturer	Rolls-Royce Limited
first_run	June 1928
major_applications	Blackburn Iris Mark V
Blackburn Perth
number_built	100
developed_from	Rolls-Royce Kestrel
developed_into	Rolls-Royce R

Blackburn Perth

The Rolls-Royce Buzzard is a British piston aero engine of 36.7 L capacity that produced about 800 hp. Designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited it is a V12 engine of 6 in bore and 6.6 in stroke. Only 100 were made. A further development was the Rolls-Royce R engine. The Buzzard was developed by scaling-up the Rolls-Royce Kestrel Engine.

Variants

List from Lumsden. ;Buzzard IMS, (H.XIMS) :(1927), Maximum power 955 hp, nine engines produced at Derby. ;Buzzard IIMS, (H.XIIMS) :(1932-33), Maximum power 955 hp, reduced propeller drive ratio (0.553:1), 69 engines produced at Derby. ;Buzzard IIIMS, (H.XIVMS) :(1931-33), Maximum power 937 hp, further reduced propeller drive ratio (0.477:1), 22 engines produced at Derby.

Applications

Blackburn Iris Mark V
Blackburn M.1/30
Blackburn Perth
Handley Page H.P.46
Kawanishi H3K
Short Sarafand
Vickers Type 207

Specifications (Buzzard IMS)

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References

Notes

Bibliography

Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .
Rubbra, A.A.Rolls-Royce Piston Aero Engines - A Designer Remembers. Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. Historical Series no 16. 1990. ]

References

Rubbra 1990, p. 59.
Lumsden 2003, p.198.

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