Rolls Royce Dart

[Garry Russell]

Another thread had me thinking ....yeah OK ..it doesn't happen often

I was thinking about how many types have flown with the RR Dart as there sole motive power

I can think of seventeen...although that could be stretched to nineteen depending on opinion.

I can think of one that flew with a mixed set, one of which was a Dart .

Also three other types that were almost launched but abandoned at the last minuet....two original projects (lack of interest) and one conversion project (customer decided to buy Viscounts instead as they were suddely coming onto the used market in abundance)

Some of course are obvious

I'll add them here as we get them.....

Sole......including test and research

Ambassador
Argosy
ATEL Accountant
Breguet Alize
Convair 600/640
Dc3
Fokker F.27/Fairchild F-27
Gulfstream 1
Herald
Hs748
HS780 Andover
NAMC YS-11
North American P51 Mustang
Viscount
Wellington

Projects
Athena
Balliol

Testbed (mixed)
lancaster

Garry

[DispatchDragon]

F27
Alize
YS11


Over to you

Leif

[Garry Russell]

Bugger.I thought it would be ages before anyone came up with the Mustang or Accountant

Nice start Leif

Garry

[DispatchDragon]

Lancaster (test Bed)

I THINK they used the AMbassador as a test bed as well -- Same one that sported TWO Elands late

Balliol (proposed)
Athena (fitted)

Just warming up

[Garry Russell]

Keep going Leif

One of those last three spurns another entry different enough to be listed seperate

Garry

[Garry Russell]

Lancatser test bed

I didn't know about the other two......so there's an improvement

Garry

[Garry Russell]

Hi Leif

The Ambassador is on the main list as it used dart for sole motive power unlike the Lancaster testbed that used mixed.

Garry

[Chris558]

Didn't know about the Ambassador. Was it for test work, or a proposed version?

[Garry Russell]

Purely a testbed for new version of the Dart and general Dart developement.

The Darts on F.27, Freindships, Accountant and 748 etc were bigger than the Viscounts and it tested out those versions for the twin Dart aircraft.

The Ambassador also flew with Napier Elands and RR Tynes as well

Garry

[Chris558]

I suppose the ultimate version of the Dart was the Mk. 12 - fitted to the 780? And the YS-11 had similar power.

The Argosy could have done with those.