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Old 05-09-2012, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by furbs View Post
Its just hard to imagine the RR engine behaving like that, plus ive read most books on the BOB and most of the books by the pilots that flew in the battle and ive never heard that before. Not saying the guy is not telling the truth but im sure i would of come across that info on the spit2.
Can't remember the source, but I'm sure I read that at idle the Merlins were a snarling angry beast.

I guess like any engine with a high overlap cam, they need high revs to breath properly.
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