>"The enthusiast should try being crouched inside the tail section of a
Spitfire, with his knees by his ears and fixing the radio wiring, with
the engine running."<
When you ran up the engine of a Seafire, a naval Spitfire, to do the mag
drops on the RR Griffon engine (a more powerful version of the Merlin),
two mechanics had to drape themselves over the tail to stop the aeroplane
from tipping over! And that was with the engine at 0 boost! Max boost was
+27. Definitely noisy smelly and draughty.
Two other good noises were the sound of a Lancaster bomber with 4 Merlins
flying by and the noise of a Shackleton maritime reconaissance aircraft
taking off with it's 4 Griffons at full boost.
Of course YMMV,
David Brister.
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