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To: Candor7
Its how US won the battle of Britan using Rolls Royce Merlin V-12 enginies in Spitfires while the Germans bit he bullets with their smaller fuel injected Messerschmitt engines.

Ummm... fact check time??

The Battle of Britain was won by the Royal Air Force over a year before the US entered the war.

The RR Merlin was a V-12 of 1647 cubic inches, the German Daimler Benz 601 (not "Messerschmitt") engine was a V-12 of 2070 cubic inches.

The Merlin made its max power at 3000 rpm compared to the DB 601's 2500 rpm.

Far from being a disadvantage, the fuel injection on the DB engine gave the German pilots more combat manueverability because they did not need to worry about fuel starvation to the carbs. Later Merlins had an redesigned carburetor which was a quasi-fuel injection type.

Not sure about the rest of your post, but I hope you know more about cars than you do about WW2 aircraft.

26 posted on 08/14/2010 5:17:59 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.)
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To: Notary Sojac

Nice spin, as you know, both A/C underwent considerable evolutiuonary change throughout the war. It depends on when and what you are talking about, as you well know.Playing the one up game is inetersting is it not? A spit Mark one to mark 9? A Daimler version what? You didn’t say? Why?LOL. I really don’t care.

I hope yo know more about being genuine than you know about being a spinny winny artist.

In any event my point is that the V design is American
innovation, and that its just about the best gasoline powered engine design.

I don’t really care about your base ball stats either.LOL.


30 posted on 08/14/2010 5:29:47 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_thela_quintessentia_1.html)
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