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Mar302009
Business End of a Mustang
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 5:41PM | in Aviation
Under that sleek cowling is the British Rolls Royce Merlin engine. When the P51 was first introduced it used an inferior Allison engine and the resulting performance was a big disappointment. Someone had the idea of putting the Spitfire's Merlin engine into the Mustang and the best fighter of World War 2 was born.
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