Such leaps in performance required engines that could deliver more horsepower without sacrificing reliability, and few ...

Of any two engines on display, there's just no beating the name recognition of the Rolls-Royce Merlin liquid-cooled V12 and the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 ...

The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine played a pivotal point in World War II. It was in the Mustang and Spitfire aircrafts and allowed them to fly at higher altitudes.

“Contribution to Victory,” a film that appears to date from the early 1950s, documents the expansive efforts of the Rolls-Royce corporation to ramp up Merlin engine production for World War II.

The engine firing was for 185 seconds with 147,000 pounds of thrust, the full duration and power required for a Falcon 9 rocket launch. The tests took place at SpaceX’s rocket development ...