Buzzard | |
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Type | Piston V-12 aero engine |
Manufacturer | Rolls-Royce Limited |
First run | June 1928 |
Major applications |
Hawker Horsley Short Sarafand |
Number built | 100 |
Developed from | Rolls-Royce Kestrel |
Developed into | Rolls-Royce R |
The Rolls-Royce Buzzard (also referred to as the H engine) was a British piston aero engine of 36.7 litres (2,240 cubic inches) capacity that produced about 800 horsepower (600 kW). Designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited it featured 12 cylinders in a 'V' configuration of 6 in (150 mm) bore and 6.6 in (170 mm) stroke. It was manufactured in the late 1920s, but only 100 were sold. A further development was the Rolls-Royce R Schneider Trophy engine. The Buzzard was developed by scaling-up the Kestrel engine in the ratio of 5:6.
List from Lumsden.
Data from Lumsden