Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine

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V-12 engine aircraft piston engine liquid-cooled aircraft engine

The Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine is a British liquid-cooled V-12 aircraft piston engine of the interwar period that powered numerous notable military aircraft and helped establish Rolls-Royce’s reputation in aero engine design.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Rolls-Royce Kestrel V-12 aero engine	1
Rolls-Royce Kestrel	0

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	V-12 engine ⓘ aircraft piston engine ⓘ liquid-cooled aircraft engine ⓘ
application	Avro Anson prototype NERFINISHED ⓘ Fairey Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Fairey Seal NERFINISHED ⓘ Fokker D.XVII testbed NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawker Audax NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawker Demon NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawker Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawker Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawker Hector NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawker Hind NERFINISHED ⓘ Heinkel He 112 prototypes ⓘ Heinkel He 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ Messerschmitt Bf 109 prototype NERFINISHED ⓘ PZL P.24 prototype NERFINISHED ⓘ
bore	5 inches ⓘ
compressionRatio	around 6:1 ⓘ
configuration	60-degree V-12 ⓘ
coolingSystem	liquid-cooled ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
designer	Arthur Rowledge NERFINISHED ⓘ
displacement	21.24 litres ⓘ
dryWeight	approximately 1,000 lb ⓘ
era	interwar period ⓘ
family	Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine family NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstRunDate	1927 ⓘ
fuelType	aviation gasoline ⓘ
influenced	Rolls-Royce Merlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Rolls-Royce Peregrine NERFINISHED ⓘ
manufacturer	Rolls-Royce Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableVariant	Kestrel IB NERFINISHED ⓘ Kestrel IIS NERFINISHED ⓘ Kestrel V NERFINISHED ⓘ Kestrel XVI NERFINISHED ⓘ Kestrel XXX NERFINISHED ⓘ
powerOutput	around 525 hp in early versions ⓘ up to about 745 hp in later versions ⓘ
productionEnd	late 1930s ⓘ
productionStart	late 1920s ⓘ
role	military aircraft powerplant ⓘ
significance	helped establish Rolls-Royce reputation in aero engine design ⓘ
stroke	5.5 inches ⓘ
successor	Rolls-Royce Merlin NERFINISHED ⓘ
supercharger	single-stage centrifugal supercharger ⓘ
usedBy	Czechoslovak Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Finnish Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Luftwaffe (in prototypes and test aircraft) NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Air Force ⓘ Swedish Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor	fighter aircraft ⓘ light bombers ⓘ reconnaissance aircraft ⓘ
usedInConflict	Spanish Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ early stages of World War II (in second-line roles) ⓘ
valvetrain	single overhead camshaft per bank ⓘ

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Rolls-Royce Kestrel (design experience) → appliesTo → Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine ⓘ

Rolls-Royce Kestrel (design experience) → sourceEngine → Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Rolls-Royce Kestrel V-12 aero engine

Hawker Osprey → powerplant → Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine ⓘ