Inspired by the Spitfire fighter plane, the Aeroboat packs aircraft-inspired switchgear ... fuel-injected Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine – the same 27-liter powerplant that propelled the Spitfire.

head of corporate heritage at Rolls-Royce, said: "The Merlin was an amazing engine. It could be developed and adapted and when aircraft needed to go higher and faster, it could go higher and faster.

In the 1930s, Rolls-Royce had developed one of the finest pieces of engineering ever conceived: the Merlin engine. Planners knew they had something special in the supercharged V-12 engine ...

It was Rolls-Royce that designed, without government funding, the 27 litre V12 Merlin aircraft engine. Merlin powered Avro Lancasters and Supermarine Spitfires were instrumental in preserving the ...

An engine fault that grounded planes at British Airways and other airliners will take "some years" to fix, Rolls-Royce has said. The aerospace giant said parts in its Trent 1000 engines were ...