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.Rubbra 1990, p. 59.

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