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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
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?
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The only thing better than a Merlin is TWO Merlins... unfortunately, I'll probably never get to hear the sound of a Mossie at full throttle.
Gotta admit, though, the Hamilton Lanc doing a high-speed pass at 200 feet kinda gets to ya...
I'm also kinda impressed by 18-cylinder double-banked radials, just wouldn't want to have to pay their fuel bills though.
PS: The TRUE Elixir of Life has to be the sound and smell of a 30-cylinder Chrysler tank engine...
