derwent

Hey RPF, If you haven't checked it out, I've written up how got my Rolls Royce Derwent MK9 engine Rolls Royce Derwent MK9 Teardown and Lessons Learned . So the BP's were the 10-hole kind and the flame tubes were a variant and have a different hole pattern at the bottom. The flame tubes are in...

So I bought an MK9 engine from a government auction up here in Canada. This is a bit of a write up on the adventure! Our Science and Tech museum was clearing out their warehouse, where they had had it in storage since the early 70’s. It was a factory MK9, not an upgraded MK8. The journey begins...

Hey everyone! As some of you may have known or see in other posts on Facebook and RPF, I recently acquired a Rolls Royce Derwent MK8-9 jet engine. I purchased this in the hopes it had the correct balance pipes for my vintage obi build, but despite the data plate on the engine being 8-9 (hoping...