The Rolls-Royce RB. 82 Soar was a small, expendable axial-flow turbojet intended for cruise missile use and built by Rolls-Royce Limited. The River Soar is a Tributary of the River Trent in the English East Midlands. Axial compressors are rotating aerofoil based compressors in which the working fluid principally flows parallel to the axis of rotation TurboJET (噴射飛航 is the brand name for the operations of the Hong Kong -based Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management Limited (信德中旅船務管理有限公司 A cruise missile is a guided Missile that carries an explosive payload and uses a lifting wing and a propulsion system usually a Jet engine, to allow For the present day company see Rolls-Royce plc. For other uses see Rolls-Royce (disambiguation. It was developed in the early 1950s, and demonstrated at the Farnborough Air Show in 1953 on each wingtip of a Gloster Meteor flying testbed. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
The output of the Soar was 1,750 lbf (7. 8 kN). As an expendable device the life of the Soar engines was very limited, two or three hours at most.
Use
It was to be the intended powerplant for the "Red Rapier" missile project[1], one of the projects coming from the UB.109T operational requirement. UB109T was a British cruise missile project It was cancelled in 1953 Red Rapier was to be built by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd Weybridge,Surrey as the Vickers 825. Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in Weybridge is a town in the Elmbridge district of Surrey in South East England. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. Development was cancelled in 1953. Three Soar engines were used, two on the tips of the tailplane, and one on the tip of the fin. One-third scale models without engines were built and air launched from a Washington bomber (the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in RAF service) on the Woomera missile range to test the aerodynamics and autopilot operation. [2]
As the Westinghouse J81 it was a powerplant for the US AQM-35 missile [3]
It was an auxiliary powerplant for the Italian Aerfer Ariete fighter design and also considered as a JATO powerplant for other aircraft. AQM-35 was a Supersonic target drone produced by Northrop. Overview The AQM-35 program began life in 1953 as the Model RP-61 The Aerfer Ariete ( Italian for Ram) was a prototype Fighter aircraft built in Italy in 1958. JATO may also refer to the group Jews Against the Occupation.
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