Merlin Madness
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No matter what side of the pond it was built, the Merlin is, and always will be the sweetest sounding engine ever built.
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@beneehall goddamit. learn history. it was a licensed copy. we did NOT steal it. packard built merlins were build under license by packard in the USA. its not like we were the soviet union stealing the b29 design from crashed b29's.
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Read Alex Henshaw 'Sigh for a Merlin' , this has some of the history of snags encountered in Merlin production, especially the infamous 'skew gear failure' - no magnetos all of a sudden! - and the piston seizures on Packard Merlins, caused by the omission of a machining operation to save time.....the pistons had to wear to shape or die! Usually there were a few 'thuds' as the matter got resolved inside the engine, once in a while a rod gave up under the strain.
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F no Moron head.
All racing Merlins use Alison rods. The limeys couldn't design a decent lower end.
The Yanks had to 'make sumtin work' again that u Limeys F-d up on!
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Alison where into PT boats.
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Gotta love a V12
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@beneehall They did not "steal" the design, they made it under licence from RR, it was a ready made engine that fitted into the P51 and made it the plane it was, in war time time is precious the Alison engine needed more development to make it a good engine, it makes sense to use an "off the shelf " engine that is a proven engine.
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@rampking1 Check out my channel for a vid of FW 190 in hd, aswell as other aircraft filmed at Duxford.
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@rampking1 Check out my channel I too have a FW 190 in HD and other planes filmed at Duxford.
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Not a variant but a clone. Essentially, a copy of the ENGLISH Merlin. The Yanks didn't know how to build a good engine. They had to steal the design from the Brits.
beneehall 2 years ago 13
no, the A-36 and the P-51A had the Allison, but later versions of the P-51, including the D-model shown here, had the Rolls Royce Merlin
usmcpsu66 2 years ago 8