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Zack Baughman
03-02-2012, 08:45 AM
Turn your speakers up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E1cKPUWHa8I#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E1cKPUWHa8I#!

Bill Greenwood
03-02-2012, 04:38 PM
Ah the sound of an Allison, even better two Allisons.
Next best thing to a Merlin.

steveinindy
03-02-2012, 05:04 PM
Ah the sound of an Allison, even better two Allisons.
Next best thing to a Merlin.

Agreed, although I don't think a Merlin is anything special. I think P-40s are far more interesting than P-51s.

Matt Gonitzke
03-02-2012, 05:12 PM
I was hoping for radials, but still cool, nonetheless...:)

steveinindy
03-02-2012, 05:29 PM
I was hoping for radials, but still cool, nonetheless...:)

Eh....just get a spray bottle and fill it with some oil and spritz yourself. That's the major difference between a radial and other warbird engines. ;)

Mike M
03-02-2012, 06:56 PM
Eh....just get a spray bottle and fill it with some oil and spritz yourself. That's the major difference between a radial and other warbird engines. ;)

if there's no oil dripping out, refill it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXomNl5X2jg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O85fejqJnl8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F23RciUwDE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpph7-iunvI&feature=related

but they never drip coolant!

Hangar10
03-02-2012, 08:22 PM
My favorite piston fighter. Thanks for sharing Zack!

wacoc8
03-02-2012, 08:48 PM
Agreed, although I don't think a Merlin is anything special. I think P-40s are far more interesting than P-51s.

I am pretty sure that Bill is referring to a Merlin powered Spitfire. Inlines, radials.....when it is that much horsepower they all sound sweet!:)

steveinindy
03-03-2012, 12:17 AM
Point taken. I always forget that the Spit was powered by a Merlin.

Spit Lover
03-07-2012, 01:30 PM
Agreed, although I don't think a Merlin is anything special. I think P-40s are far more interesting than P-51s. They're all my favorites.

Mayhemxpc
04-19-2012, 06:41 PM
I was recently told a very nice story about Allisons and Merlins by a retired colonel during social time at the RAF Club in London. He said, of the Mustang, "Well, we said that you have a very nice little airplane there, but we think it would be even nicer if you put one of our engines in it. Then you Americans embarrassed us by building the Rolls Royce engines better than Rolls Royce did."

steveinindy
04-19-2012, 08:09 PM
Then you Americans embarrassed us by building the Rolls Royce engines better than Rolls Royce did."

We do it so well that they now make them here in Indy.

One of my acquaintances actually was part of the Allison team that worked on the P-51 and several other aircraft. He and his wife run a winery and if he finds out someone visiting is an airplane geek, he tends to be much more generous with the tastings. His wife rolls her eyes when someone "gets him started" but several glasses of great wine and tons of airplane talk are always the best ways to spend a summer evening without leaving the ground.

MEdwards
04-20-2012, 05:20 PM
These might be from the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand. We visited there a couple years ago quite by accident. It's a great museum, well worth the trip if you're anywhere in the region.


(http://www.omaka.org.nz/)