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Originally Posted by Osprey
That was built for the Griffon engine but they had a ton of problems and dropped it. The Merlin XX wasn't used in the Spitfire, that's why Robo is rightly taking the mick out of you.
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In this case Crumpp is right, just for once - the Spitfire III prototype was built with the Merlin XX, which had a single-stage two speed supercharger - it also had clipped wings, a revised undercarriage which was raked forward by 2 inches, and a revised windscreen with two straight side pieces and flat windscreen with internal glass (the undercarriage and windscreen were later used on the Spitfire VC) . When it was decided to reserve the XX for Hurricane IIs the Mk III was adapted to take the first Merlin 60 series engine, becoming a Mk IX prototype. The Mk IV was very similar to the Mk III but had the Griffon engine.
09-26-2012, 09:04 AM
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