I've had a couple of clients that had Merlins in their boats...
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I've had a couple of clients that had Merlins in their boats...
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Modified Vee Cigarette's? Off shore racing? September Long Beach-Catalina water ski race? Probably not pickle fork hydroplanes...Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
Hornet II 1930 Garwood...
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My horse-powered guess; Just a few era's off.....:(
More beautiful than anything of fiberglass.
Yes they did. The strategy behind it was to use the explosive energy to blast the flame sideways away from the source of fuel faster than it could burn, leaving a relatively safe area for the workers to then move in and shut off the fuel flow. Not always successful the 1st time. Sometimes the fireball would go up and the spray would catch up with the source of ignition and back to square 1
you looks like dino pull to me...wheres the movie!!:popcorn:
....and it looks more like a Packard Merlin.
Wow, these boat and motor pictures are great!
Just what I need in my boat a Rolls Royce engine.
Yes they do, back then and to this day. There are some 'Thrilling true tales' of putting out well fires in the 1930's era Populaar MEchanics back issues on Google Books. Also I remember seeing a documentary about how they dealt with the well fires in Kuwait back after the first Gulf War; may have been a Nova or Frontline episode on PBS. There's also this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104275/ but I don't think that's the one I saw.Quote:
Originally Posted by VinnieL
That one features the real Red Adair, who was the character John Wayne was playing...
And the air racing guys hate, HATE HATE the folks who stick 'em in their unlimited hydroplanes, because they trash the engines and they're no longer usuable as rebuilds for the P51's they're tring to keep in the air...
You're in luck. The T 44 WILD HORSES is for sale and it will only set you back $225,000...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralphxyz
Construction of a B-24 Liberator bomber in the Willow Run Plant. Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1943.
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I machined and built a set of merlins for my bosses 47 triple ,apache with tripples , v8 merlins...the first 2 ever released. over 1000 hp each. dam I miss that stuff.
Wasnt the Merlin a V12?
Yes, the Merlin is a V12...
The Rolls-Royce Merlin is a British liquid-cooled V-12 piston aero engine of 27-litres (1,650 cu in) capacity. Rolls-Royce designed the engine and first ran it in 1933 as a private venture. Initially known as the PV-12, it was later called Merlin
Was the top dog of aircraft engines for a very few years. Then came The Allison V-1710 aircraft engine designed and produced by the Allison Engine Company was the only US-developed V-12 liquid-cooled engine to see service during World War II. Versions with a turbocharger gave excellent performance at high altitude in the twin-engined Lockheed P-38 Lightning,
also the radials which grew to enormous sizes the Pratt&Whitney 4360 was quite successful with 28 cylinders arranged in 4 staggered rows with 3000+ hp and around 3500 hp in later versions. Lycoming also built and tested a 36 cylinder 7755, A 5000+ hp behemoth with a displacement of 7755 cubic inches weighed in around 6000lbs.
Ans since we started talking somewhere in this thread about engines being used in marine applications it is worth mentioning the aluminum Bentley marine 56 cylinder radial
Getting back to "V" engines Chrysler developed a unique v16 2200 hp engine that took its power from the center of the engine instead of either end this was also Chrysler's first Hemi
The Brits certainly have some obsessions for Merlin powered cars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Ealcx95xY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFo6gNymb2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0guvOMs8nWc
Link:
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/art...ed-rolls-royce
A compatriot of mine squeezing a Meteor V12 into a Ford Crown Vic:
https://drivetribe.com/p/wwii-tank-v...Q1ygX0JtWoW-eQ
I wonder if there were a lot of those engines left over there after WWII?
Not sure how this thread swapped over from B-24 engines to Merlins? There were some 19 000 Liberators built, and around 13 000 C-47 Dakotas which means a total of 102 000 PWA R1830 engines fitted to new aircraft of these types alone. There were a total of 173 618 of these engines built and there are still a number of DC-3's flying, and both new and second-hand spares are freely available.
Wow! Very impressive.
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Photographers and camera equipment lined up in preparation for a nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, 1946.
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redundancy is the air force's way. and it usually works. I wonder if they remembered to take the pics....
I suspect that they just heard "Bikini", and grabbed all the cameras they had . . .
Forrest in Atlanta
Lol, but the test predates the swimwear...by only a few months. Word 'Bikini' was used as marketing hook to current events.Quote:
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Think about it, no different than everything now seems connected to COVID.
what a boost crona got from this!!!
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Workers at a Rolls Royce factory lowering the crankshaft assembly into the crank case of a Merlin aircraft engine, England, 1942.
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Strange the front connecting rods look shorter than the middle ones.
The crank journals are at different throws...
Can you explain how/why? Thanks very much...and yes, I'm jealous of your spot at the lake...we camped at Incline Beach from 1954 onwards...cheers
Jim on a glorious sunny 18° winter day
The only question about this picture is the graffiti...
I have only lived here for over 40 years and can't imagine living anywhere else...Quote:
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Riggers riveting the red-hot rivets on the lower outside south chord, Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1930-1931 / Sam Hood.
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thaTS A LOT OF RIVITS. possiably they could of used better steel and a few less rivits.
Why? That would have meant less work, and the bridge was built to create jobs and help economic recovery.Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
p.s. you mis-spelt rivets.
not less work, just move onto another project. Im sorry I spelt riviots rong...but aparently you could tell what I was refering two.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge was built in an attempt to fight the depression in Australia during the early 30’s, so there was no other work to go to. It employed tens of thousands of people, at many different levels. It was, to some extent, a success as it put money into the economy. The government we have now would never even think about doing such a thing.
p.s. don’t let your spelling bother you, I’m just a finicky bastard raised by finicky parents!
it dont bother me at all.I have many degrees/diplomas on the wall,I learned long ago if you miss spell something and somebody could not figure out what your sayin from this mispelled word than they would not of understood the entire sentence or what is being explained/conveyed.... now how can I go rong with that...oops did I spell rong rong?how can that be?
Australia hasn't had an economic recession in 28 years. It's the only country in the world to be able to say that.
The Harbor Bridge is very impressive to see. A true Engineering marvel.
Australia is experiencing a recession right now, but it is masked by the ‘rona crisis.Quote:
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