Aircraft Engines | From Propellers To Turbojets, To Supersonic Passenger Jets | A Video Collection

A video collection about aircraft engine evolution. Learn about WW2 engines, and the first turbojet engines, all the way to commercial supersonic jets, like the Tupolev Tu-144, and the Aerospatiale BAC joint venture, the magnificent Concorde Join this channel to support it: Click the link to watch more aircraft, heroes, and their stories, and missions: @Dronescapes The story of how the Rolls Royce Merlin engine equipped the extraordinary P-51 Mustang and the evolution of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190's engine, all the way to the story of the first functioning centrifugal turbojet in April 1937, Frank Whittle's creation. The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litres (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first ran it in 1933 as a private venture. Initially known as the PV-12, it was later called Merlin following the company convention