Rolls Royce Crecy - The Most Advanced Piston Aero Engine Never Made.

https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid The Rolls Royce Crecy was a revolutionary piston aero engine that promised to take over from where the Merlin/Griffin engines left off with power level up to a possible 5000 hp from its two-stroke sleeve valve double blower design all from a 26 litre V-12. This is the story of the Rolls Royce Crecy and why you've probably never heard of it. This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid This video was suggested by one of our viewers, Chris. If you have any suggestions for videos then message or email me via Youtube. Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : Rolls Royce, Historic Aero Engines, Patrick Smart, Mechtraveller, benp1981 A big thank you also goes to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Abrakodabra Kobra / 25% Alistair Brown Andrew Gaess Andrew SMITH Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom ChasingSol Collin Copfer Dom Riccobene Dragoncorps Etienne Dechamps Florian Müller George Bishop II Hassan Fraz Mansor Henning Bitsch Henri Saussure inunotaisho james t early Janne Kurikka Jim Early Johan Rombaut john edwards Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Kedar Deshpande Ken Schwarz László Antal Lawrence Brennan Lorne Diebel MajorFluffy Pyloric SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort Vincent Will Lowe Music from the Youtube Library Heaven and Hell by Jeremy Blake Dramatic Swarm by Doug Maxwell