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Spitfire
Some really stunning pictures from a new book documenting the last of the airworthy Spitfires.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3598540/The-Photographer-captures-pin-sharp-images-final-55-airworthy-Spitfires-using-just-handheld-camera.html?    
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Great- thanks!
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Wow--one of the prettiest airplanes ever. Absolutely gorgeous photos. Thanks for sharing. We see the one out of Paine Field from time to time.
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Always wanted to guy a Spitfire and paint it like............................
  
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Impressive plane! Awesome history and a Rolls Royce V12 engine!
RIP the men who flew them during WW2 and never returned home. 
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Wasn't that the aircraft that initially had an under powered engine; a 1st gen Allison? But then a whole series of V-12 power plants through its evolution until the last RR? Which apparently is a master piece of design / weight and power for its time?
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Didn't the Spitfire move to the Griffon later in life?
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They are a marvel. The engine for the airplane is almost the size of the car.
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Thanks for correcting that - was some of the airframe technology shared between the two countries?
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 I did not take this photo, but had the opportunity to watch this unit take off from Conningsby in July 2010. Best Les
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Rolls Royce Merlin engines, one at the entrance to the Aeronautics building at Imperial College London, and another one at Bicester Heritage (ex-RAF bomber station). I wish I had such an iconic engineering achievement hanging in my university building to help inspire me every day.
I find it amazing that in this country, most people (not just plane or history geeks) know what a Spitfire is, and a good portion of them also separately know what a Merlin is. I suppose the engine is closely tied to the identity of the plane, which in turn is like a national treasure.  
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One of the best looking planes of WWII and cetainly the best engine. Thanks for the links.
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... and it was the Brits that took the anemic Allison engine of the P-51 and swapped it for a Merlin. Big game changer for the P-51.
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I posted this video on a Rolls Royce forum and the mods quietly deleted it... Lots of Pompous Idiots on the forum.
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