Recent content by Ryanjames17

Bought all I'm going to say to this is that. The engine in my vehicle regularly sees, 40-80hp going down the road at 60mph, and it dose not have power loss threw a automatic.. 15-20hp going down the road could maybe be a small Toyota with a mannual transmission.. the best known automatic...

The one that had near Mk IX performance that they never put into production as they dumped the merlin XX into the hurricane. I'm sure they regreted that when FW190s showed up

what are the best 2 spitfire books out there?

more then point of the thread is more what if they decited/had to to continue with piston engines over turbines for some reason that was actully more then i dont like jet turbines.

what are the TOP 2 books on the RR merlin that have perhaps more info in them then one needs to know.

Spitfire MKIII would be the best

i updated that. well we can say this. for the sake of argument not sure if its true or not but turbo chargers could be made with lesser materials and get a much higher service life then a turbine say maybe 400 hours vs under 10 and if they used the precious metals it was 2-5K hours on a turbo...

So here is a new thread on this but im going to lay down a few things 1. Turbine engines are not feasible 1a. Fuel Reasons 1b. Precious metals used in High temp turbine blades are not avlible enough to mass produce the number of turbine blades required for mass use of jet engines. 2. Post WWII...

Thank you guys!

What are the correct colours for a Battle of Britain spitfire, MKI and MKII? Ie what model paints should be used?

Yeah that is it, had thought they were kits but perhaps I had mixed them up with something else I was looking at. They are pretty good

Who makes the kits that are part for part almost to the actual aircraft, usually they are skeleton kits.

i really think if there was a lack of turbine engines being able to work right perhaps the rare metals used in them were rarer then they were for the germans in WWII. so jet engines were determined to be good but were not profitable we will say (because with out the rare metals TBO's would never...

Thanks, I will have to have a look over there on that.

I was wondering if anyone knew who would have good technical drawings of the Spitfire MK1-V that would give good details on parts such and wing ribs and spar and well as the inner structure of the fuselage. i know you guys might think im crazy but i am thinking on building a 1-1 of the...