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05-14-2004, 03:23 PM
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Country:  | yup, they must've been REALLY proud 
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05-14-2004, 08:23 PM
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Country:  | The Americans and Russians are always proud of British and German designs, and engines.
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05-15-2004, 10:25 AM
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Country: | can you blame them the merlin was a work of art.............
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05-17-2004, 06:24 AM
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Country: | All Rolls Royce engines are, look through the history of aviation in military and civil service Rolls Royce is always there. The Boeing 747 has Rolls Royce engines in it. They make the best engines in the world, and in the 50s they were basically the only engine worth considering accept Armstrong engines, which were also British. The Sabre had a copied Armstrong engine, and the Mig-15 had a Rolls Royce Nene engine in it.
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05-22-2004, 03:11 PM
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Country: | it's shame that rolls royce are always stereotyped as making huge cars...........
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05-24-2004, 03:45 PM
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Country: | thats true though, ive never seen a small rolls royce  did anyone here know that someone put a merlin engine in a car once and got sued for it?
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05-25-2004, 10:33 AM
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Country: | No, I've never heard that. I knew they put Merlins in tanks, in WW2. Many British tanks were run on Merlins, called Meteors because of the slight modifications.
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05-25-2004, 11:38 PM
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| US PT-boats were powered by Packard engines. I'm not sure what (if anything) they had in common with the Merlin.
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05-26-2004, 01:59 PM
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called Meteors because of the slight modifications.
| why would they be called meteors just because of modifications................
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05-27-2004, 01:28 PM
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Country: | Because it's not the same engine, it wasn't just modifications in performance, it was a tank engine different from an aircraft engine. Therefore a different engine therefore a different name. It was basically a Merlin engine though.
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05-29-2004, 09:14 AM
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Country: | any pics of this meteor..............
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05-30-2004, 06:33 AM
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Country: | presumably they were called meteors because they would regularly go up in flames
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05-30-2004, 11:06 AM
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Country: | but meteors are made primarily of ice, they only break into flames when breaking though the o-zone, which they rarely do..............
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05-30-2004, 11:28 AM
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you spoil all my fun 
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05-30-2004, 01:47 PM
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Country: | ah, but i'm sure there'll be people onthis site about to prove me wrong, are you gonna call tham nerds too??
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