Flying Legends Spitfire start up its engine

[justforever96]

Okay...can any of you awesome warbord fans tell me whether when you see Spit's being started at airshows, etc, do they use their original cartridge starter, or is it like a modern electric start or what? I just don't see how they spin the props for like 10 seconds at a time...the cartridge doesn't burn THAT long, does it? I can't seem to find out anything about this.

[JosephHallenbeck]

@justforever96 Im not sure, this Spitfire is MkXIV and engine is Rolls Royce Gryphon. At Merlins I suppose there were Cartridge staters but at Gryphons I don't know.

[kristenburnout1]

@justforever96 The griffon originaly had a cartrige starter, but theese are noisy and burn for a short time, so it have, sadly, been modified to an electrical starter. If you want, you can look at some of the other videos on youtube of starting engines of spitfires, and you will hear the electric starter sound.

[SpikeXtreme]

sounds great but next time get closer to the rail so you don't have peoples heads/hats in shot and people walking past ..kinds spoils it

[twinstu50]

And go to an airshow, hold up your idiot screen, film the lot, and that's all you see of the event.

Why bother?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

No idea. No idea at all of why YOU are there, whatever the occasion. Wedding/Funeral/Birth/Death/Mo­torway crash/U.F.O/.Pointless.

[Baronof92]

5 blades?

[musicbruv]

Yep, its a griffon engined spit.

[Baronof92]

niiiiiiiiice

[hatchzords]

the merlin is one of the nicest sounding engines ever but the griffin just has so much noise to it there both awesoem :D good show this i go every year :)

[TopGunSGA]

I'm afraid that it's a Griffon not a Merlin

[hatchzords]

yeh i was just saying i prefer merlin sound to the griffin

[TopGunSGA]

Ah I must have misread your post, sorry

[salemcripple]

I've always loved the sound of ww2 piston driven airplanes. I like the radials better, but this is still awesome.

[liveforeverUK2008]

looks like the aircraft nerds are in town, who cares what type it is??? its just cool and legendary!

[Irvine5312x6ma]

Yes it is a Supermarine Spitfire XVIII

[Cindella101]

Looks more like a Hawker more than a Supermarine?

[AceWalkerAstronaut]

It is in fact a Supermarine Spitfire. Only it's a later model with a cut-down rear fuselage, bubble canopy, and Rolls-Royce Griffon engine instead of the earlier Merlin (hence the 5-blade prop-it has a larger fin as well). The Griffon is sort of a big-block version of the Merlin that turns the opposite direction. It's also about 500 cubic inches bigger and makes about 600 more horsepower, hence the bigger prop and rudder. Griffon Spitfires rock.

[PETEEAT]

looks like a spit 14 or 18 a true monster in prop terms , oodles of power yet can turn with a spit 9 plus astonishing climb rates of over 5000ft/min in my humble opinion the best all round fighter of the war