GOING IT ALONE: Rolls-Royce's own fighter concept

摘要

Rolls-Royce's Installation Design Department was established at Derby in the late 1920s, specifically to look after all elements of installing the firm's products in new aircraft. Towards the end of 1942 the department began to examine fitting a piston engine within the body of a fighter-type aeroplane -in other words, a buried installation along similar lines to early single-engine jet fighters. The piston powerplant would be positioned in the centre fuselage behind the pilot, with its tractor propeller driven by a long connecting shaft.