Rolls-Royce Tyne

Tyne
Rolls-Royce Tyne installed in a Luftwaffe C-160
Type Turboprop
Manufacturer Rolls-Royce Limited
First run April 1955
Major applications Breguet Atlantic
Canadair CL-44
Transall C-160
Vickers Vanguard

The Rolls-Royce RB.109 Tyne is a twin-shaft turboprop engine developed in the mid to late 1950s by Rolls-Royce Limited to a requirement for the Vickers Vanguard airliner. It was first test flown during 1956 in the nose of a modified Avro Lincoln.[1] Following company naming convention for gas turbine engines this turboprop design was named after the River Tyne.

  1. ^ Jackson 1990, p. 414