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Rolls-Royce Conway
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<p>The Rolls-Royce RB.80 Conway was the first <a href="/facts/Turbofan/x8XWVw19">turbofan</a> jet engine to enter service. Development started at <a href="/facts/Rolls-Royce_Limited/EDUo2a7d">Rolls-Royce</a> in the 1940s, but the design was used only briefly, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before other turbofan designs replaced it. The Conway engine was used on versions of the <a href="/facts/Handley_Page_Victor/bwxg7ATr">Handley Page Victor</a>, <a href="/facts/Vickers_VC10/SJSbTbRN">Vickers VC10</a>, <a href="/facts/Boeing_707/8TgSYe3M">Boeing 707-420</a> and <a href="/facts/Douglas_DC-8/V4E0Jqov">Douglas DC-8-40</a>. </p><p>The name "Conway" is the English spelling of the <a href="/facts/River_Conwy/XYHzsHNc">River Conwy</a>, in <a href="/facts/Wales/xa3W6PHH">Wales</a>, in keeping with Rolls' use of river names for gas turbine engines. </p>