They fastened their seat belts as instructed and heard the four Olympus engines change tone as the plane dived into the thick cloud over Manhattan.

The Concorde's Olympus engines got additional compression from its supersonic inlet, yielding an effective overall pressure ratio of 80:1.

We have also upgraded the test best facility at East Tullos so that it can now handle RB211 and Olympus engines.

Olympus engines are also used to provide back up power in case of a loss of grid electrical power at some of Britain's nuclear power stations.

Vulcan B.1 XA891 was fitted with four Olympus 200 engines in the spring of 1958 for intensive flying trials.

In addition, test bed facilities have been upgraded in order to handle RB211 and Olympus engines.

The Olympus engine took this gas jet and passed it through straightening vanes - to remove swirl.

A brief surge of power announced that first one, then the other pair of afterburners had been activated on the Concorde's Olympus engines.

The Olympus 593 engines in Concorde had a high specific thrust in supersonic cruise and at dry take-off power.

The aircraft was fitted with two Olympus engines under the wings, outboard of the Nenes.