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To: BroJoeK
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!

6 posted on 05/11/2016 4:30:37 AM PDT by Da_Shrimp
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To: Da_Shrimp
The Mustang had a later version, but still a Merlin.

But wasn't the Mustang's engine the improved version of the Merlin licensed to be built by Packard?

I believe Packard's Detroit engines were used on several of England's longer range bombers.

12 posted on 05/11/2016 4:47:16 AM PDT by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Eenie meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak....)
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