Off Topic but Cool

[c.rainford73]

Had a visit this weekend here in New England from the Collings Foundation. They preserve many WW II planes and military equipment. Went after hours with the family to take it in....

Enjoy

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[jackalope]

Last week we had 4 P-51's and a B-17 bomber giving rides from Martin's State airport. It was pretty cool watching a B-17 being escorted by P-51's flying over my work!

[43rdRecceReg]

I wonder what they spray on that Mustang to keep away the corrosion. Could it be Tamiya's hard to find (in the UK) 'Metal Primer'? Mind you, that plane was an underperforming asthmatic until they put a Rolls-Royce Merlin in it..

[jarndice]

That must have been something else, I wish I had been there,
I am not sure you can have a favourite Bomber but if you can then I favour the B 24 Liberator although while visiting the Imperial War Museum at Duxford where one of them is on display alongside a B 52 and a Hustler, Most impressive.
I got talking with someone on the staff about them and he said that considering it was used to patrol the Atlantic because it was about the only aircraft with the range it was known that when a B 24 had to ditch the longest recorded time before it sank was 24 seconds I think that just beats a house brick.
Shaun.

[c.rainford73]

Tomorrow we will return and I'll get some videos of the Merlin rumbling and the B-17 radials roaring Funny the topic this evening at the airport was how the ground crew couldn't get enough of that Rolls Royce

[jarndice]

Before putting down the Allison engined Mustang You have to know a couple of things,
First the Allison engine was very good at low level and acceptable below 10,000 feet I agree it was asthmatic above that hight, Second the Procurement agency did not put the Merlin engine in the P51 airframe because they thought it would be superior but to save money,
Every time the Allison needed a rebuild or replacement that was British Hard currency leaving the country but the Merlin was a British engine so it saved money and was pretty much off the peg EXCEPT ironically because of the quantity's needed the Packard Corporation was licenced to build the Merlin in America
Shaun.

[jarndice]

The British Board of Trades Procurement agency in their efforts to save money wasted a fortune,
One example was the B 17, they haggled to get the best deal and in doing so they ordered the aircraft minus the engine Turbochargers The end result being the things could only just get airborne empty let alone with a full bomb load,
The RAF Bought 30 of them and flew just 22 missions operationally they were then withdrawn from front line service, many of them being assigned to Coastal Command
Shaun.

[Estnische]

Rolls-Royce Merlin?

How's your negative G dive then...

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[c.rainford73]

Rolls-Royce Merlin?

How's your negative G dive then...

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That is awesome such a beautiful sound.

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[silversurfer1947]

The habit of the Merlin cutting out when the aircraft was put into a dive was cured by Miss Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling, a young female engineer from the Royal Aircraft Estalishment at Farnborough, in 1941, in the form of a simple metal disc. It was officially the R.A.E Restrictor, but was more commonly called Miss Tilly's Diaphragm, Miss Shilling's Orifice or the Tilly Orifice.