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Old 04-23-2012, 11:25 PM
Skoshi Tiger Skoshi Tiger is offline
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Originally Posted by Crumpp View Post
NO, changing cylinder heads is major repair.
Changing the Cylnder head in this case is not classed as a 'repair'. It was completed as part of the Merlin engines service maintenance.

To me this implys that the cylnder head modification would have already been performed on aircaft scheduled for that service before the change over. This would have sped up the conversion process conciderably.




Luckly the RAF had very competent and well trained mechanics and maintenance personel to perform the task.
Cheers!

Last edited by Skoshi Tiger; 04-23-2012 at 11:46 PM.