[Tigers] Merlin Engines

[Marc James Small]

At 10:16 AM 4/22/2008, Tod Brown wrote:
 >"they were installed on P-51 Mustangs among other aircraft"
 >
 >Yeah, like Spitfires and Hurricanes and even Lancasters.  What amazing
 >pieces of machinery.  There is one at the Owls Head Transportation
 >Museum not far from where I live.
 >


Well, the Rolls-Royce Merlin was never installed
in a production P-51.  The Mustangs had the
Packard version of the Merlin which differed in a
number of ways from the RR original.

Marc


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