Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour

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Adour
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An Adour Mk 102 at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
Type Turbofan
Manufacturer Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Limited
Built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
First run1968
Major applications BAE Hawk
McDonnell Douglas T-45 Goshawk
Mitsubishi F-1
SEPECAT Jaguar
Number built>2,800

The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour is a two-shaft low bypass turbofan aircraft engine developed by Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Limited, a joint venture between Rolls-Royce (UK) and Turbomeca (France). The engine is named after the Adour, a river in south western France. [1]

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History

The Adour is a turbofan engine developed primarily to power the Anglo-French SEPECAT Jaguar fighter-bomber, achieving its first successful test run in 1968. It is produced in versions with or without reheat.

As of July 2009 more than 2,800 Adours have been produced, for over 20 different armed forces with total flying hours reaching 8 million in December 2009. [2] The U.S. military designation for this engine is the F405-RR-401 (a derivative of the Adour Mk 871), which is currently used to power the fleet of Boeing / BAE Systems T-45 Goshawk trainer jets of the United States Navy.

Variants

Bench engines
Ten prototype engines were built for testing by both Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca. [3]
Flight development engines
Development engines for the Jaguar prototypes, 25 built. [3]

Reheated (afterburning)

Adour Mk 811 displayed at HAL Aerospace Museum Adour Mk 811 by Augustus.jpg
Adour Mk 811 displayed at HAL Aerospace Museum

Dry (non-afterburning)

Higher bypass

Applications

Licence-built

Ishikawajima-Harima TF40-IHI-801A

Engines on display

Specifications (Adour Mk 106)

Data fromRolls-Royce [11]

General characteristics

Components

Performance

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References

Notes
  1. Gunston 1989, p.155.
  2. Rolls-Royce PLC -Adour product page Retrieved: 21 July 2009
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Development of the Adour". Flight International : 649–650. 26 April 1973.
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  5. "RAF Jaguar GR3/GR3A". Royal Air Force, Dated: May 2007. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008.
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