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The engine of a Spitfire that crashed in a field in East Sussex during World War Two is set to go on display in a museum. How ...
There’s nothing like the sound of a Spitfire’s Rolls-Royce Merlin engine - and hearing it at takeoff is pure magic. I captured this iconic aircraft as it roared down the runway, with that ...
If everything is done correctly, the Spitfire is one of the easiest aircraft to start. The engine usually fires within two blades and runs like a clock. While the Merlin-engine versions run very ...
The Rolls-Royce Merlin­ V-12 piston engine—named after a falcon—powered British military aircraft that included the Fairey Battle, the Hawker Hurricane, and the Supermarine Spitfire.
A flight commemorating the Battle of Britain is set to top the bill at a seaside town's famous airshow this summer. Taking to ...
The engine of a Spitfire that crashed in a field in East ... When Phil Wooler was a boy he saw the aircraft come down in a field near his family's farm in Arlington on a spring morning in 1942.