Spitfire and Typhoon

[AndrewJ]

Gday Ken

This link may assist you....

Been there :-)
I was also using
http://www.worldmilitair.com/product...s/sm%20300.pdf
to cross ref back into my book.

Sounds like your talking about "Spitfire The History" by Morgan and Shacklady

Nup
"Spitfire" by Stewart Wilson.
I see the E wing went onto some of the XIVe variants too, but they are Griffons, so not "real spits" .
All interesting stuff.
Andrew

[raymo]

A bit off topic, but whenever I hear talk about the Merlin it reminds me of
the chap who owned an Engineering company across the road from my primary school. He put a Merlin into his Rolls, plus rear truck axles and
diffs. If I remember rightly it was direct drive because he couldn't find
a transmission that could handle the power. He was clocked well over 300kph on the autobahns and autostradas in Europe.
raymo

[ZeroID (Brent)]

They recently put a Mosquito back in the air over here. Lots of rebuild though, wood doesn't last too well. I think it's going to a buyer in the UK. Mate of mine did some video of it's inaugural flight out at Ardmore Airfeild. Fast and Noisy !!