Rolls-Royce Buzzard

The Rolls-Royce Buzzard is a British piston aero engine of capacity that produced about . Designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited it is a V12 engine of bore and stroke. Only 100 were made. A further development was the Rolls-Royce R engine. The Buzzard was developed by scaling-up the Rolls-Royce Kestrel Engine.

Variants

List from Lumsden.

Buzzard IMS, (H.XIMS)

(1927), Maximum power , nine engines produced at Derby.

Buzzard IIMS, (H.XIIMS)

(1932-33), Maximum power , reduced propeller drive ratio (0.553:1), 69 engines produced at Derby.

Buzzard IIIMS, (H.XIVMS)

(1931-33), Maximum power , further reduced propeller drive ratio (0.477:1), 22 engines produced at Derby.

Applications

• Blackburn Iris Mark V
• Blackburn M.1/30
• Blackburn Perth
• Handley Page H.P.46
• Kawanishi H3K
• Short Sarafand
• Vickers Type 207

Specifications (Buzzard IMS)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .
• Rubbra, A.A.Rolls-Royce Piston Aero Engines - A Designer Remembers. Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. Historical Series no 16. 1990. ]

External links

• Flight magazine - Period Rolls-Royce Buzzard advertisement, August 1933