Rolls-Royce Tyne

Tyne
Rolls-Royce Tyne installed in a Luftwaffe C-160
TypeTurboprop
ManufacturerRolls-Royce Limited
First runApril 1955
Major applications

The Rolls-Royce RB.109 Tyne is a twin-shaft turboprop engine developed in the mid to late 1950s by Rolls-Royce Limited to a requirement for the Vickers Vanguard airliner. It was first test flown during 1956 in the nose of a modified Avro Lincoln. Following company naming convention for gas turbine engines this turboprop design was named after the River Tyne.

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