I’m curious about this Rolls-Royce Napier enginearfah wrote:
Restoration will also include a Rolls Royce Napier engine.
I’m not sure D. Napier & Sons would like their Sabre engine being associated with their principal commercial rivals!
I’m curious about this Rolls-Royce Napier enginearfah wrote:
Restoration will also include a Rolls Royce Napier engine.
The Typhoon, wonderful as it was, presented its pilots with so many ways to kill themselves that I'm not sure having an airworthy example is such a great idea.arfah wrote:If they are successful, it will be the only airworthy example... in the world.
Other than for Stuka "tank killers" and Hurricanes with 30 mm cannons under the wing (plus Mosquitos with something bigger "in the nose" to kill ships), they did not know what TACAIR was before thenRetroSicotte wrote:One of the "big five" of the RAF's aircraft during the war