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Re: Image comments for RR Merlin
Posted by: quasi
Date: 07/11/2006 10:54PM
After the Spitfire, my favorite application for the Merlin was The P-51 Mustang, a great American airplane which began life with a terrible Allison engine (at least terrible for the application). Someone fitted a Merlin into the plane and the whole became almost greater than the some of it's parts as well as a great example of a group effort.
I also think the engine first appeared in the Supermarine racing airplane a few years before WWII.
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