[Tigers] Merlin Engines

[Scott Hutchinson]

Kinda a semantics issue.

I'm sure the Rolls-Royce guys would say that they were built by Packard under
licence.

I think Ford was building B-24s.  Does that mean that they weren't
Consolidateds?


http://www.enginehistory.org/Packard/jpgs/Merlin%20V-1650%20data%20plate,%20l
ate%20style.jpg


http://www.aviation-history.com/engines/merlin.htm


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small [mailto:marcsmall at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:31 AM
To: Tod Brown; Scott Hutchinson
Cc: Jay_Laifman at countrywide.com; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Merlin Engines

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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