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| Fergus OMore:
PACKARD Merlins, if you please! |
| Manxmodder:
Didn't the Jaguar factory also produce some versions of the Merlin?......OZ. |
| mattinker:
--- Quote from: Fergus OMore on November 24, 2016, 02:43:17 PM ---PACKARD Merlins, if you please! --- End quote --- Ooops, thanks Norman! |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: Manxmodder on November 24, 2016, 05:38:53 PM ---Didn't the Jaguar factory also produce some versions of the Merlin?......OZ. --- End quote --- Probably you mean Spitfires rather than engines! According to one source, there may be quite a lot buried nearby in crates! I'm not really into Spits. OK, the Hendon Three- including SL-721 and those of 601 and 604 Squadrons before they got Vampires. My mate- still alive, was the engine 'basher' on SL-721 on B Flight RAF 31( Goldstars) Squadron. I merely ran the Technical Library :lol: |
| Fergus OMore:
I wonder if it was an urban legend or true but when my classmates ended up at Vickers Armstrong's at 14 at almost the end of the war, the story was that before 'Pearl' the Brits drilled a hole in a pin and sent it to Japan who drilled it again- and sent it back-- and so on. Then there was the other story about writing the Lord's Prayer on a pinhead! Quite? Then we seem to have this 100,000 hours for a Merlin.Really? Well, I recall Avro Shackleton first public flights when it flew , keeping height on its starboard outer with the RR Griffon going full blast. That was Farnborough 1949 and I'd 'skived off' from Hendon. Of course, it was the update to the Merlin engined Avro Lancaster. The Air Ministry specification was that it should last 168 hours. The odds were a bit ,like the Lanc. If a Lanc could last three flights without being shot down---- Where would you be without urban legends? I'll get me coat |
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