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- See also: Rolls-Royce Trent
The first
Trent - a Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent on a test rig at
Hucknall, in March 1945
The Rolls-Royce Trent or RB.50 was the world's first turboprop engine. It was based on a concept provided by Sir Frank Whittle and was essentially a Derwent Mark II turbojet engine with an additional turbine stage driving a reduction gearbox 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 program comprising 298 hours of flight tests.[1]
There is some debate over the origin of the "RB" prefix - having originated from the "Rover-Barnoldswick" project and plant names from the original Rover gas turbine projects which were passed into Rolls-Royce hands, it is now generally accepted, albeit some would say erroneously, to refer to "Rolls-Barnoldswick".
The sole
Trent Meteor EE227.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Pugh, Peter (2001). The Magic of a Name, Part Two. Icon Books. ISBN 1840462841.
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