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The Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart is a turboprop engine designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited. First run in 1946, it powered the Vickers Viscount on its maiden flight in 1948. A flight on July 29 of that year, which carried 14 paying passengers between Northolt and Paris–Le Bourget Airport in a Dart-powered Viscount, was the first ...
The Conroy Turbo-Three was a series of two Douglas DC-3s modified with turboprop engines by Conroy Aircraft. The first conversion first flew on May 13, 1969. Two Rolls-Royce Dart Mk. 510 engines from a crashed Vickers Viscount previously operated by United Airlines were used to replace the original Pratt & Whitney radial engines.
First prototype, with short fuselage (74 ft 6 in (22.71 m), accommodating 32 passengers and powered by four 1,380 ehp (1,032 kW) Rolls-Royce Dart R.Da Mk 501 engines. [1] Type 663 Second prototype, testbed for Rolls-Royce Tay turbojet. [2] Type 640 Planned third prototype, powered by four Napier Naiad turboprops. Not built, with parts ...
One DC-3 converted by Conroy Aircraft with two Rolls-Royce Dart Mk. 510 turboprop engines. Conroy Super-Turbo-Three Same as the Turbo Three but converted from a Super DC-3. One converted. Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three Two DC-3s converted by Conroy Aircraft with three Pratt & Whitney Canada PT-6A turboprops. The second aircraft replaced the first which ...
The 1904 Rolls-Royce 10 hp Two-Seater is currently listed on the Guinness World Records as the most expensive veteran car to be sold, at the price of US$7,254,290 (equivalent to $10,660,000 in 2023), on a Bonhams auction held at Olympia in London on December 3, 2007.
Authorities in Fort Lauderdale, Florida say a man stole a Rolls-Royce Cullinan from a hotel valet and then drove it into a Checkers fast food restaurant six miles away.
A preserved Rolls-Royce Griffon 58, one of the last Rolls-Royce piston engines to be produced. The red and white "dumb bell" object to the left of the engine is an air raid siren exhibit Rolls-Royce produced a range of piston engine types for aircraft use in the first half of the 20th century.
3 suspects were just arrested in a South Florida luxury car theft ring — 1 of the stolen cars was a $300,000 2020 Rolls-Royce. How the scheme works and how to protect your ritzy ride Christy Bieber