Rolls-Royce Eagle (1944)

Eagle
Rolls-Royce Eagle 22 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
Type Liquid-cooled H-24 piston engine
Manufacturer Rolls-Royce Limited
First run March 1944
Major applications Westland Wyvern
Number built 15 (Eagle 22)

The Rolls-Royce Eagle Mk XXII is a British 24-cylinder, sleeve valve, H-block aero engine of 46 litre (2,807 cubic inches) displacement. It was designed and built in the early-1940s by Rolls-Royce Limited and first ran in 1944. It was liquid-cooled, of flat H configuration with two crankshafts and was capable of 3,200 horsepower (2,387 kW) at 18 psi boost.

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