[BroJoeK]

Thanks, beautiful birds!

Now, a question: I've heard the British Lancaster bomber and the US Mustang fighter used the same Rolls Merlin engine.
Did the Spitfire also use that engine, or something different?

[Da_Shrimp]

The Spitfire and Hurricane both uses the Merlin. As did the Mosquito. The Mustang had a later version, but still a Merlin.

Merlin engines sound bloody amazing. We had a Hurricane and a Spitfire doing circuits around our street a couple of years ago about 200 feet up. Words fail me!

[alfa6]

With apologies to Da_Shrimp :-)

And here I thought that the post was about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOoiEbtf2w

regards Merlin engines, thee were many variations of the Rolls Royce merlin engine ranging in horsepower from about 1200 to 1600 HP.

The P-51 Merlin used a Packard built Merlin. Most of the parts from the Packard built Merlins were not interchangeable with the Rolls Royce versions.

One other quick note that when Packard got hold of the drawings and a few Merlins for production purposes, Packard discovered that the Merlins were all most hand built. Packard engineers almost redesigned the engine for mass production which is why the parts did not interchange.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}