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Originally posted by FV623
Whilst we have an organised Spitfire beat-up along the Falaise road for this 60th D-Day year, wouldn't it be nice if Kermit Weeks and Ricardo's get his Tempest V finished so we can enjoy 24 pots of Napier's sleeve-valve finest at 3750 a minute.
Here's another lump of novel engineering that out performed RR litre for litre by a big margin and the truly huge Wasp Major by 100% having the same grunt for 36 litres that some needed 72 litres for.
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If Mr Weeks would do so, I'd say he qualifies for an MBE immediately!
When I was a small boy we regularly visited family in the UK, and we would always do "a day in London". Hamleys toy store is well remembered, but the sight of the
Napier Sabre at the Sience Museum really sparkled the imagination. I wondered how on earth an engine looking that complicated could work in the first place, and if it did, how it sounded. During his national service, my dad had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Centaurus who was then residing in RNLN's Sea Furies. Being one of Bristol's sleeve valve engines, the sound is probably more enthralling than US radial engines which are the only ones I have had the pleasure of seeing, hearing and smelling (see comment above...)
H.
P.S.: I wonder how that balsa and plywood glued-up aircraft would have fared with two Sabres stuck on it?