- 1. Re: Off Topic: Engine Swaps - P-51 (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:48:29 -0700
- In lieu of an "Expert", I consulted my copy of "The Great Book of WW2 Airplanes" and in the chapter about the P-51, it explains that the British came to the US looking to purchase planes to fend off
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- 2. Re: Off Topic: Engine Swaps - P-51 (score: 1)
- Author: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:13:32 +0000
- -- Tim Dafforn University of Cambridge Structural Medicine Unit Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 2XY. UK Tel. (01223) 763230 Fax. (01223) 336827 http://smokeroom.cimr.
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- 3. RE: Off Topic: Engine Swaps - P-51 (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Alexander" <chris@root.moose.ca>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:41:31 -0500
- Both the Tempest and Typhoon are different aircraft. The substitution of the Merlin for the Allison occured somewhere around the tail end of the A variant (i.e. late P-51A) - or was it beginning of t
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- 4. Re: Off Topic: Engine Swaps - P-51 (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:51:02 -0700
- Testing of the Merlin engine in the P-51 was begun in April 1942 with 4 planes retrofitted with the engine. (serial numbers AM203, AM208, AL963 and AL975) These were made specifically for British tes
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