@soaringtractor yep, problems with which led to months of delays getting Mk 16's to the front line. Give you a race horse, turn it into a seaside donkey. Long live Rolls Royce and Supermarine!
@soaringtractor With the Rolls Royce engine before that it was not a good plane, America built it Britain improved it much like the Corsair which Britain also improved and showed them how to use it on a carrier. So whats your point all planes have strengths and weaknesses including the Mustang up against a FW 190 it would have had a very tough time its a good job Germany could not build or train enough pilots otherwise we would not be having this conversation in English.
Why would one idiot thumbed this video down out of the 417 people who thumbed it up? Beautiful aircraft and beautiful sound even though I I'm in love with the F4U Corsair I still love them all! If anybody is out there who flew these beautiful birds for our freedom I salute you! Thank you! And thank you all to keep these beautiful birds alive today! USMC veteran here. 1987 to 1995.
Poetry in magnificent motion. I saw one fly at Richmond RAAF air base open day in 1990, it did a barrel roll over the crowd. Not ashamed to say I shed a tear.
Then you haven't seen this, Ray Hanna scaring the presenter and camera crew...... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4iOoiEbtf2w.html 😀 or the bridge stunt from 'A Piece of Cake' done by Ray Hanna.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6e9WQJYMImY.html 😀 or Ray Hanna flying through the trees in 'A Piece of Cake' from 0.59 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KiRV06XQ1f4.html 😀
If you think that's low look up Ray Hannah he has one video he's almost cutting the grass, the commentator on it really crapped himself and other flying under an old stone bridge across a river
Good to see a video of the Spitfire without the usual hate by the Wilbur soaring tractor, we the people, baracuda and Ray Hansen trolls making nasty remarks.
VictorRomeo Sorry old bead but the Lancasters did not use that version of the Merlin, ALL Lancasters used the Merlin 20 series SINGLE stage supercharged engine, This $hitfire used the PACKARD, made in USA 266 merlin it a 2 stage supercharged engine !!!! DUUUUHH!!!!!!
@@topbanana4013 WRONG !!!! WRONG !!!! ALL F'n WRONG !!!! Mustang was 30 MPH FASTER than a merlin $hitfire !!!!The engine in this plane The PACKARD 266 was more similar to PACKARDS V1650/3 0r 7 than to then RR version !!!
there shall never be another sound so sweet, as the roar and hum of the Merlin's heartbeat(Even if it was a Griff - still gorgeous - and Merlin's younger Brother at any rate !)
A beautiful, deadly lady warrior with the heart of a Lion, the sword against the darkness, respect for those men and ladies who gave us freedom and for those who made the ultimate safice, god's finest warriors ❤❤❤❤.
The Packard Merlin was supposed to be manufactured to the standards laid down by Rolls Royce. R.A.F. Ground crew testified that some of the Packard units had to be rebuilt from the start owing to poor production values.
David Green Never! The American standards were abysmal compared to Rolls Royce. Just as their idiot standards, led to their installation of the Mulberry Harbours off the Normandy coast in June 1944. The British design called for 6 stancions or fixing points per caisson. The yanks cut corners by fixing the caissons at 4 points. A week later a channel storm blew up and wrecked the US Mulberry, the British Mulberry survived. End of rant!
@@dovidell Since the company started. Packard went bust post-war because they built cars that no-one wanted. As a manufacturing company they were excellent - although they were the second choice to licence build Merlins as Henry Ford refused.
@@PenzancePete I READ THAT HENRY FORD ONLY AGREED TO BUILD ENGINES FOR RAF BOMBER'S, ON THE PROMISE, THEY WEREN'T USED, TO BOMB HIS FACTORIES IN GERMANY. THE BOSS OF GM ALSO LAID DOWN THAT CONDITION, FOR MANUFACTURING OTHER WAR MATERIALS. THOSE TWO MAMOUTH US COMPANIES, MADE MORE TRUCKS ETC FOR THE NAZIS, THAN FOR THE US MILITARY BACK HOME.
@@dovidell That's just a silly statement. The working tolerances that Packard had were famously tighter than Rolls'. Stanley Hooker mentions that in his book, Not much of an engineer". I'm not from the U.S.
OOOOHHHHH !!!!!! That PACKARD Merlin does sing its song F R E E D O M !!!!!! The MkXVI was a MkIX with the PACKARD MERLIN engine Made in the USA 1,040 built !!!
Not very quick down here 325 mph but it did have a great C/R 4650 ft/min It may have been the Packard The LF MkVIII 362 mph @S/L CR 5580 ft/min @S/L MS gear 5100ft/min @11000ft FS gear
