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Re: Westland Whirlwinds V FW190 or 109's
The Whirlwind is very high on my list of the most beautiful aircraft built.
Rolls Royce had problems with the Peregrine engines (and no other aircraft used them), it could have been available earlier than July 1940 otherwise.
Part of the problem in replacing the 885hp Peregrines with 1000+hp Merlins would have been the size of the aircraft.
Wingspan was 45ft versus 40ft of the Hurricane and it was 32ft9" long versus 32ft2" for the Hurri.
Only 112 Whirlwinds were built.
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