[TR] Exhaust notes (off topic?)

David Brister david.brister at wanadoo.fr
Sun Nov 4 03:10:18 MST 2007


>"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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