BBMF Spitfire Mk 19

A video of the BBMF Spitfire Mk 19 at Dunsofld.
Turn up the volume and listen to the 37 litre Rolls Royce Griffon!
Which engine note to you prefer: The Merlin of Griffon?

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• BBMF
• Spitfire
• Mk
• 19
• XIX
• Dunsfold

[alfa75gta]

Wish the commentator would shut up!

[BradBrassman]

Aye, me too.

[KorvettenKapitan83]

"Çözün lan beni" diye kükrüyor heyy yavrum benim beee

Roars like "unleash me"



[trippstewartm4a1]

That is hands down the most badass prop plane i've ever seen.

[Kerbee]

Griffon: sounds angry, like it wants to fight!

[darkmossie633]

magnificent, but when you walk down the street in my local town, and a spitfire

flies over (mainly on Sundays), none of the youngsters raise their heads to look at the history above them

-so sad, but they just don't give a "damn"

[SvenTviking]

@Xiolablu3 Ah, but I was talking about war time Griffons. Even the Spiteful only had about 2,250hp, not that much more than the Merlin 130. They doubled the hp of the Merlin during the war.

[Xiolablu3]

@SvenTviking Thats absolutely incorrect. The Griffon was far more powerful than the late marks of merlin. Merlin 130/1 top HP was 2060hp. Griffons 130 top 2500hp.

As Joe Smith said in 1942 ' The good big'un will eventually beat the good little'un.'

[SvenTviking]

The final marks of Merlin were about as powerful as the griffon, used in DeHavilland Hornets and the P51H. That went 490 mph! And theres one flying, check it out on you tube.

[atrumira]

Almost 70 yrs ago... add a 20 something young Brit (whose type will never be seen again) to the controls of any Spit & what did that spell?

Salvation

[fatboi455]

My Favorite mark of spitfire you cant beat a griffon engine.