Reading one of the Wikipedia articles in my reply to Chris a minute or two
ago, Chuck, revealed that the aircraft in question almost certainly has a
Merlin engine! A 1950s Spanish workaround to meet a specific need at the
time. But that aside, the other Wikipedia article makes clear that the
original Me 109 engine was also a V-12, although inverted (another tell-tale
for the aircraft in Chris' image being Spanish - the exhausts are at the top
of the cowling instead of the bottom).
Piers
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From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 July 2012 01:03
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Vintage Visitor
Thanks for the close-ups and details. I also enjoyed the Mustang and
Spitfire shots. It's not a surprise but I hadn't known the ME-109 was a
V-12. I just love the sound of Merlins. Does the ME-109 sound anything
similar?
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/5/2012 12:57 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Bob (and others)
>
> Sorry, that was a single image outside SmugMug, which is not what I
intended.
>
> Here is a link to the gallery:
>
> http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/13807540_dz53NK
>
> The images I mean are at the end.
>
> Chris
>
> On 5 Jul 2012, at 17:38, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> Nice one. Did you get closer?
>>
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>
>>> I was on the phone trying to get a network problem sorted out when I saw
this lovely old beast through the window that overlooks the airfield, at
work.
>>>
>>> <http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/i-T9HWmKn/0/L/D2012CB
>>> 2277-ME109-L.jpg>
>>>
>>> The pilot, one Cliff Spink, was on his way from Duxford
>>> (Cambridgeshire) to Humberside (further north, near Yorkshire) when
>>> the cowling on one side of the engine started to come adrift. He
>>> landed at my airfield, Wyton (also in Cambridgeshire) to sort it
>>> out. My telephone interlocutor allowed me to leave him hanging on
>>> the line while I ran out to catch a couple of images of the old
>>> "enemy" :-)
>>>
>>> The aircraft's owner is one Richard Lake, MD Eastern Airways, who also
owns a rather nice Spitfire. Cliff is an ex-RAF 2 star (Air Vice Marshal)
who displays both WWII aircraft.
>>
>
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