Supermarine Spitfire TR.9 - Great Audio

Airshow display of the dual seat Supermarine Spitfire TR.9.

After the Second World War a number of Mark IX Spitfires were converted to this dual control configuration to be used as training aircraft.

For more details see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire_(late_Merlin_powered_variants)


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[Stingercam21]

Is that a RR merling engine ?? it sounds more like the Griffon one....

[HAFUVideo]

@Stingercam21 Pretty sure it's a Rolls Royce.

[rowen211]

Greatest planes ever made: SR-71 Blackbird, P51 Mustang, Spitfire!

[thunzie]

Back in the late 80's I was show on a farm here in Australia a genuine Spitfire RR engine, new old stock, in a crate, packed in grease in a wooden crate. I wonder if it's still there.... I imagine it'd be worth a fortune by now.

[HBPencil79]

@AlanMartinNala I agree that the Packard and RR engines sound slightly different. I'm no engineer so I couldn't say why they do but despite having similar performance the engines were different enough (as the Packard was built to American measurements) that they required seperate servicing tools and spare parts. I assume RR and Packard also followed their own development programmes. The P-40F (and L) were powered by Packard Merlins so I assume that's why they sound different to RR powered Spits.

[AlanMartinNala]

@HBPencil79 I´m not sure if the Mustang (of which I´m afraid that I´m so terribly bored) uses the same Merlin engine as the Spit IX, but it sounds faintly different to me. I guess that there had been different Merlin versions, though. Furthermore, currently they restored a Curtiss P-40F with a Merlin engine as well (rather than the usual Allison V-1710 that powers the P-40) and to my ears it has a slightly different tone or pitch from the Spit´s engine, too.

[HBPencil79]

@AlanMartinNala Indeed this is a Rolls Royce Merlin. However the first production mark using the Griffon was the MkXII. All later marks used the Griffon as well except for the MkXVI (basically a MkIX but powered by a Packard Merlin). I agree, a nice as the Griffon sounds the Merlin is nicer still :)

[ColaWhiski]

a goddess of the English fighter pilots.... fantastic sound..... great work. thanks for the video...

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[AlanMartinNala]

@Stingercam21 Yes, this is supposed to be a Merlin engine. If I´m not wrong, Griffon engines began to be installed on Spitfires from the mark XVI onwards, and most of those models (if not all of them) had a single five-blade propeller or, in the last two versions (Fr.46 and 47), a three-blade contrarotatory propeller. A Merlin sounds quite different from a Griffon, anyway. I personally prefer the sound of the former.

[yesface]

I love the sound of planes like this flying by.

You've made my day. thanks.