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Old 19th December 2007, 07:05
Dominik Dominik is offline
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Re: Spitfire III - questions

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The prefix LF applies to the engine fit, not to the clipped wings.
I now that, but I used it as a mental shortcut.


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Given that the Spitfire was built in Imperial units, conversion to metric simply introduces an additional source of error.
I try to be as precise as possible, althoug it won't be 100% accurate.

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It talks of the desired engine being the RS 2M (P.127) Merlin XX. P.132 describes the RS 2M as the X, and the RS 3M as the XX.
And I still don't know which is which. Unfortunately I don't have any books on the British piston engines.
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