The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine doesn’t scream — it commands attention. As the Spitfire accelerates down the runway, the sound ...

With guns empty and time running out, RAF Spitfire pilots faced a deadly decision—tip the V-1 flying bomb with their own wing ...

Powerful and dependable, the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engine was fitted to many of the most significant warplanes of the Second World War—from the Spitfire and Hurricane to the Lancaster. The engine’s ...

A cough. A splutter. A jet of flame for good measure and the Merlin is prised from its slumbers and into rambunctious life. Many of you, perhaps even most, will have heard one of these engines, at ...

On a bright spring morning in 1940, the Royal Air Force pilot was in the fight of his life. Strapped into his brand new Supermarine Spitfire, he was locked in mortal combat with a Luftwaffe pilot over ...

1,750 horsepower vs. 510 horsepower doesn't sound like a good competition, right? But Land Rover did it, as the SUV->ke145 manufacturer put a new Range Rover Sport head-to-head against a 1945 Spitfire ...

Without question, the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine is one of the greatest piston pushers ever made. The 27-liter V12 was built in the 1930s and 1940s and would eventually go on to power allied fighter ...