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Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent

1940s British turboprop aircraft engine

Field	Value
name	RB.50 Trent
image	File:RRTrentTurboprop.JPG
caption	A Rolls-Royce Trent turboprop on display at the Science Museum (London)
engine_type	Turboprop
manufacturer	Rolls-Royce Limited
first_run	June 1944
major_applications	Gloster Meteor F.1 (Trent variant)
developed_from	Rolls-Royce Derwent
developed_into	Rolls-Royce Clyde

The Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent was the first Rolls-Royce turboprop engine.

Design and development

The Trent was based on an invention by Sir Frank Whittle. It was a Derwent Mark II turbojet engine with a cropped impeller (turbine unchanged) and a reduction gearbox (designed by A A Rubbra) connected to a five-bladed Rotol propeller. The Trent ran for 633 hours on test before being installed in a Gloster Meteor jet fighter which flew for the first time on 20 September 1945 at the start of a 298-hour flight test programme.

Applications

Gloster Meteor

Engines on display

A preserved Rolls-Royce Trent turboprop engine is on display at the London Science Museum.

A preserved RB50 Trent is displayed at the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust in Derby.

Specifications

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References

Notes

Bibliography

Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.

References

Gunston 1989, p.147.
"Rolls-Royce Aero Engines" Bill Gunston, Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989, {{ISBN. 1-85260-037-3, p.119
Pugh, Peter. (2001). "The Magic of a Name, Part Two". Icon Books.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1946/1946%20-%200240.html {{Dead link. (February 2022)

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