Rolls Royce Merlin Engine

[Satan]

Not sure if anyone is interested but I thought I would post this up as the site needs some traffic.........

Anyways a friend of my cousin's husband was browsing eBay and was looking at plane engines, so to cut a long story short he bought a Merlin engine which after contacting RR etc etc
turns out was fitted to a Spitfire from 303 Squadron and Scott is now in the process of building a replica Spitfire.

You think the E30 lot are nuts, this takes it to another level....... of nuttiness.

Enjoy

https://www.lagunasspitfirelegacy.org

[Cloggy Saint]

Needs a cone filter innit.

[Satan]

Needs a cone filter innit.

Not with 1450 HP

[flybynite]

Boy he better make sure he has the pitch right on that propeller before fires it up.

Has the makings of 'the fastest milk float in the west'

[steve_k]

looks along the same lines as the one charlie broomfield in PPC mag has in his rover sd1 though his is the non supercharged meteor engine.

[martauto]

Not sure if anyone is interested but I thought I would post this up as the site needs some traffic.........

Anyways a friend of my cousin's husband was browsing eBay and was looking at plane engines, so to cut a long story short he bought a Merlin engine which after contacting RR etc etc
turns out was fitted to a Spitfire from 303 Squadron and Scott is now in the process of building a replica Spitfire.

You think the E30 lot are nuts, this takes it to another level....... of nuttiness.

Enjoy

https://www.lagunasspitfirelegacy.org

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Absolute work of art
A Lancaster flew right over the top of my house as it was going to do a fly past at a local event 3 miles away

Mart.

[Satan]

Not sure if anyone is interested but I thought I would post this up as the site needs some traffic.........

Anyways a friend of my cousin's husband was browsing eBay and was looking at plane engines, so to cut a long story short he bought a Merlin engine which after contacting RR etc etc
turns out was fitted to a Spitfire from 303 Squadron and Scott is now in the process of building a replica Spitfire.

You think the E30 lot are nuts, this takes it to another level....... of nuttiness.

Enjoy

https://www.lagunasspitfirelegacy.org

Screenshot 2020-01-29 at 15.39.28.jpg

Absolute work of art
A Lancaster flew right over the top of my house as it was going to do a fly past at a local event 3 miles away

Mart.

My Uncle flew Wellingtons and then Mossies.

[steve_k]

Not sure if anyone is interested but I thought I would post this up as the site needs some traffic.........

Anyways a friend of my cousin's husband was browsing eBay and was looking at plane engines, so to cut a long story short he bought a Merlin engine which after contacting RR etc etc
turns out was fitted to a Spitfire from 303 Squadron and Scott is now in the process of building a replica Spitfire.

You think the E30 lot are nuts, this takes it to another level....... of nuttiness.

Enjoy

https://www.lagunasspitfirelegacy.org

Screenshot 2020-01-29 at 15.39.28.jpg

Absolute work of art
A Lancaster flew right over the top of my house as it was going to do a fly past at a local event 3 miles away

Mart.

If you want to see a Lanc up close the go to east kirkby (Lincolnshire) when they taxi runs, or the battle of Britain memorial flight at connisingsby (again Lincolnshire).

The noise from 4 of those engines up close at take off speed is unreal

[Be30]

I refuelled a spit the other day!
If I remember correctly he took about 300 litres for just a few hours flying. Avgas is currently at £1.76 so he must have had deep pockets!

[martauto]

I refuelled a spit the other day!
If I remember correctly he took about 300 litres for just a few hours flying. Avgas is currently at £1.76 so he must have had deep pockets!

Lucky boy

Mart.

[Satan]

I refuelled a spit the other day!
If I remember correctly he took about 300 litres for just a few hours flying. Avgas is currently at £1.76 so he must have had deep pockets!

If you can afford a £3M plane than that is a drop in the ocean.

[Be30]

Haha yeah good point lol
this one he was in had a bullet entrance hole in the upper part of the fuselage and the original bullet still engraved in the metal plate behind the pilots head! That’s gotta add 1-2 million more i imagine!!

[boiliebasher]

I remember a Lancaster bomber accompanied with 4 spitfires doing a remembrance flight a few years back, flown quite low and close to me and the noise those engines make is something else.
It's putting hairs on the back on my neck just thinking about it. Incredible piece of historical engineering at its finest.

[steve_k]

if you want to see the likes of the lancaster & spitfire (amongst others) up close & personal then these are the two places you should visit.

https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/

https://www.raf.mod.uk/display-teams/ba ... al-flight/

the one at Coningsby used to have the vulcan bomber there (i think they still do) that makes the lanc look like a sopwith camel as it's that big.

both places are well worth a visit.

[steve_k]

I remember a Lancaster bomber accompanied with 4 spitfires doing a remembrance flight a few years back, flown quite low and close to me and the noise those engines make is something else.
It's putting hairs on the back on my neck just thinking about it. Incredible piece of historical engineering at its finest.

a bit like that flyover that park in Sheffield where a US bomber came down during ww2 that the bbc arranged last year.

my house was on the flight path so i had a fantastic view as the planes went over on their way there.