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To: Theoria; SunkenCiv; Jeff Head; Homer_J_Simpson

It would be awesome if they are still in good condition!!


3 posted on 04/16/2012 2:06:20 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Spitfire Mark XIVs were on the cutting edge of what could be done with a piston-engined prop fighter. The Griffon in the XIV made over 2,000 horsepower; it could do 445 mph at top speed. That’s double the horsepower, 90 more mph top speed, and double the climb rate of the Mk I Spitfires from the Battle of Britain just four years earlier. They are absolute beasts.

The XIVs are easiest to tell apart from the older Spitfires by the prop...they used an odd-looking five-bladed propeller. It rotated the opposite direction from the Merlin-engined ones, so pilots transitioning to the Griffon-engined fighters had to get used to a lot of torque pulling the opposite direction from what they were used to.

}:-)4


5 posted on 04/16/2012 2:15:57 PM PDT by Moose4 ("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
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