Rolls-Royce Soar

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Rolls-Royce RB.82 Soar was a small, expendable British axial-flow turbojet intended for cruise missile use and built by Rolls-Royce Limited in the 1950s.The Soar was developed in the early 1950s, and was first demonstrated at the Farnborough Airshow in 1953 on each wingtip of a Gloster Meteor flying testbed.The output of the improved RB.93 Soar was 1,750 lbf (7.8 kN). As an expendable device the life of the Soar engines was limited at 10 hours.It was to be the intended powerplant for the "Red Rapier" missile project one of the projects coming from the UB.109T operational requirement. Red Rapier was to be built by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, Weybridge, Surrey as the Vickers 825.