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Still Packard, an american company, different engine, even some operation is slightly different like in Mustang instead of Spitfire.

 

 

Anyway just kidding about being so nitpicky, if we're going to be nitpick then… You see the irony, I think :thumbup: .

 

 

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It is still a Merlin. Packard Merlin. Not Rolls Royce.

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Still Packard, an american company, different engine, even some operation is slightly different like in Mustang instead of Spitfire.

 

 

Anyway just kidding about being so nitpicky, if we're going to be nitpick then… You see the irony, I think :thumbup: .

 

 

S!

 

OK a small nitpick ;)

 

The Packard Merlin had a few superficial differences like some of the block castings were more robust where they were bolted together (see attached Merlin 70 vs 266) but the general appearance was virtually identical. Sorry to use a Merlin 70 instead of a 66, that's all they had out of the aircraft at Biggin Hill when I was there. No real visual difference between a 70 and a 66 for these purposes.

 

Wikipedia may not always be 100% reliable but you may find these interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin

see the 266

 

and

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire_(late_Merlin-powered_variants)#Mk_XVI_.28type_361.29

see the Mk XVI. The slightly higher intercooler is mentioned which happens to sit in the area of the engine in my photo of how the castings were bolted together.

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Still Packard, an american company, different engine, even some operation is slightly different like in Mustang instead of Spitfire.

 

 

Anyway just kidding about being so nitpicky, if we're going to be nitpick then… You see the irony, I think :thumbup: .

 

 

S!

 

Nah, I don't quite see the irony. Using that logic, Corsairs built by Goodyear and Brewster should not be called Corsairs. Not to mention Liberators, which were (in)famous for lack of some parts interchangeability between the same (well, in theory...) variants built by Consolidated, Douglas, NA and Ford, causing frontline mechanics to pull their hair out :D. Packard-built Merlin is still a Merlin, just like the Ford-built one.

 

Griffon, on the other hand, was a completely different design, even originating from different "ancestor" so to speak, thus pointing it out is as far from "nitpicking" as can be, I would say.

 

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one :)

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A must watch for Spitfire lovers. Second half of the video shows take off and landing and uses a WWII pilot's journal description of his impressions of the spit and his detailed notes on start up, taxi and take off procedures.

This clip is very nice to watch. :) The sound is (partially) impressive thow it covers the voice-over to make it hard to understand (to a foreigner).

But the lack on this video is, the most interesting things are happen outside of the frame or are cut (in the most suspenseful moment) to show another take from another position.

 

Knowing, this wasn't the intention of this Video, I was interested in the Rudder- and Aileron-Work. This is just a few split seconds to be seen. Disappointed.


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