2000 bhp rolls royce engine start up

[ChevyManDan77]

was this filmed with a potato?

[Bamchucknorris]

NICE SLIDESHOW

[Bronik62]

great video. is this 720p or 2 fps?

[screamero23]

That camera you used seems like it only captures 6 frames per minute!

[WELSHYM249]

sounds like my gramps car

[uploaded113redone]

sounds like a tractor

[DeT0MAS0Pantera]

@uploaded113redone Ok ... thanks for telling us

[Hanglands]

Nice one. Thanks for sharing. I have some RR ground run vids up too. Merlin, Griffon, and a Welland jet start up. Also an Alvis Leonides.

Thanks again.

[authmaax]

A/F not so nice...

that looks dangerous

[DIOSpeedDemon]

That looks like an ALison V12 out of a P-51 Mustang C. I love those engines. RH

[fourfortyroadrunner]

Only the very very early Mustangs had Allisons. The engine that made the Mustang what it was were the much more powerful Rolls Merlins

[Chappo304V8]

Its a Rolls-Royce Griffon, it nowhere near 5,000bhp either, more in the region of 1,750-2,250

[joetoorivers]

watch the prop mate. It rotates clockwise Griffy's go counter clockwise

[falcotje]

it depends on how you look at the prop form this side it looks like clock but at the front side it is counterclockwise

[joetoorivers]

When describing an engines rotation is done from the pilots position for obvious reasons.

[falcotje]

dah i'm an sailor come from a family of captains and the ship i grew up on had 2 merlins and the same as an aircraft (port and starbord) are also from the back of the ship (the captains position)

[joetoorivers]

spitfire pilots were always very interested as to which way the prop rotated

[falcotje]

just look to the angle of the prop if you hold the prop afore you the hand witch is furthest away from you is the direction the prop turns to we had a clockwise engine (cuz of the blade of the screw was my right hand further away from me body than me lefthand)

[joetoorivers]

You likely know that the Griffy and the Merlin rotated opposite each other. That fact alone put more than a few Spitty pilots into their grave before they even saw combat.

[joetoorivers]

You should used power off the front of one and off the back of the other that way your props would have canceled the torque steer.

[falcotje]

we had the two engines next to each other and the screw's where in special blast tube's (we call em tunnels) to maximise the performance from the engines

[joetoorivers]

how big a boat or ship were these RR's in? They would be awesome in a 30' runabout. The price of fuel obviously wasn't a problem.

[falcotje]

was a 60 mtr sailship (charter ship) fuel no prob we burned red diesel (we call it gasoil) its just diesel but the diesel you throw into your car you must pay alot more than you pay for the same diesel you throw in a ship

[joetoorivers]

Where these engines Rolls Royce diesels or gassers. I'm off on a tangent about Merlins and Griffys here and was thinking they were Merlins in your ship but now that i look back on our conversation you said they were Merlins. How do you get a Merlin to run on diesel? preheat the fuel?high compression heads? what's the method? How far did you sail in that ship?

[falcotje]

we saild acros the whole world (i don't remember much cuz when i was born we only go to the uk and back) we used hi comp the fuel was added to the pistons when the air pressure on the pistons head was about 250 degrees celcius (we had to warm up the engine's first before we could actualy sail off we had to warm them up fore about half an hour)

[Chappo304V8]

er, it IS rotating counterclockwise...

[texasfathead]

NO, that a merlin maybe 1200bhp.