And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Top pic features a Griffon-engined Spit (possibly a Mark XIV). More powerful and faster than the Merlin-powered planes, but the handling wasn’t as nice. For some reason the Griffon spun its prop in the other direction. In my opinion, the Mk XIV Spitfire with the old style canopy (as in the bottom pic, not a bubble as shown in the top pic) is the prettiest airplane God ever made.
I have a buddy that built a Cigarette Boat powered by a Rolls-Royce V12. It is a twin screw that has too much power. It will launch itself out of the water with ease. To get it to run fast the props have to stay in the water but only on smooth water.
The pilot, sitting in the cockpit and looking forward, . . . the propeller on the bottom plane appears to turn clockwise, and the propeller on the top plane appears to turn counterclockwise. Is that correct (true, etc., or just because of the video)?
https://flyaspitfire.com/2019/10/14/what-were-spitfire-propellers-made-from/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Griffon Google and Wikipedia are your friends.
I'm an American fighter fan, BUT the Spitfire was the hottest thing out there (by a small margin) at the beginning of the war. With it's constant upgrades, it stayed a top performing fighter throughout the war.
There's nothing like a Rolls-Royce V12.
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Top pic features a Griffon-engined Spit (possibly a Mark XIV). More powerful and faster than the Merlin-powered planes, but the handling wasn’t as nice. For some reason the Griffon spun its prop in the other direction. In my opinion, the Mk XIV Spitfire with the old style canopy (as in the bottom pic, not a bubble as shown in the top pic) is the prettiest airplane God ever made.
ReplyDeleteP.S. That Griffon spins a 5-bladed prop with wooden blades.
ReplyDeleteI have a buddy that built a Cigarette Boat powered by a Rolls-Royce V12. It is a twin screw that has too much power. It will launch itself out of the water with ease. To get it to run fast the props have to stay in the water but only on smooth water.
ReplyDeleteThe Spitfire is a work of art as much as a plane. An Art Deco masterpiece
ReplyDeleteThe pilot, sitting in the cockpit and looking forward, . . . the propeller on the bottom plane appears to turn clockwise, and the propeller on the top plane appears to turn counterclockwise. Is that correct (true, etc., or just because of the video)?
ReplyDeletehttps://flyaspitfire.com/2019/10/14/what-were-spitfire-propellers-made-from/
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Griffon
Google and Wikipedia are your friends.
The airplane that saved England and started the tide turning in the allies favor.
ReplyDelete"Never was so much owed by so many to so few"
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I'm an American fighter fan, BUT the Spitfire was the hottest thing out there (by a small margin) at the beginning of the war. With it's constant upgrades, it stayed a top performing fighter throughout the war.
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