Rolls-Royce Welland
The Rolls-Royce Welland was the first series-produced jet engine from Rolls-Royce . The design was used in the Gloster Meteor , the Royal Air Force's (RAF )’s first jet-powered fighter aircraft , and is named after the River Welland of the same name in east England.
The Turbojet single-shaft engine has a centrifugal compressor , ten combustion chambers and an axial turbine . The W.2B / 23 prototype designed by Frank Whittle at Power Jets was further developed into the Rolls-Royce B.23 with 635 kp (6.2 kN ) thrust and flew for the first time on June 12, 1943 in a twin -engine Gloster F.9 / 40 , the prototype of the Gloster Meteor. From October 1943, 167 Welland engines with 770 kp (7.5 kN) thrust were manufactured at Rolls-Royce in Barnoldswick (Lancashire) and from May 1944 delivered to the RAF with the twin -engine Gloster Meteor Mk.1 / Mk.3.
In the course of 1943, further development to the larger Rolls-Royce Derwent (B.37) began.
- Diameter: 1098 mm
- Thrust: 7.7 kN
- Weight: 385 kg
- Air flow : 14.6 kg / s
