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
msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir!
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