Rolls-Royce Engines: Dart

1950.

Dart 506. Exhibit at the National Museum of Flight.

1953. Turbo-Propeller Engine.

Sept 1956.

Note: This is a sub-section of Rolls-Royce.

The Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart was a long-lived turboprop engine. First produced in the late 1940s, it powered the first Vickers Viscount maiden flight in 1948.It was still in production until the last F-27s and H.S 748's were produced in 1987.

Largely associated with the very successful Vickers Viscount medium range airliner it powered a number of other European and Japanese designs in the 1950s and 60s.

Power output was around 1,500 hp (1,120 kW) in early versions, and close to twice that in later versions, such as those which powered the NAMC YS-11 airliner.

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