Thanks. I guess it probably sounds like a Merlin then. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/6/2012 5:07 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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