A buddy of mine was talking to a co-worker (he's building satellites at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach now- loves his job) and they got to wondering if anything other than the Mossie flew with twin Merlins- the only thing I could find was the Westland Welkin high-altitude fighter. The Whirlwind used RR Peregrines. I'm still a touch loopy on meds after some surgery and may have missed something- anybody else got an idea?
Are you talking about RR engines or just the RR Merlin?
if the former then you have the Avro Manchester that used the Vulture, the de Havilland Hornet used Griffins. If the latter there was the MkII version of the Beufighter, there was also several versions of the Vickers Wellington and also the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley. There could be more but I cant think of any others off the top of My head.
Gondor
Tnanks- should have thought of the Beau. That's why I'm just watching TV instead of modeling- I really don't want to find out I painted a cockpit heliotrope or something else equally clueless, not to mention the problems with mixing pain meds and anything made by X-acto!
I think the original P-82 had Merlins. There was a P-38 version (P-49?) that had Merlins I think, whether it flew or not I don't recall. Wasn't there a strange looking Royal Navy beast that used Merlins? Or were they Griffons? I thought the Hornet used suped up Merlins. The CASA
2111(?)/Spanish He-111 used Merlins.According to several Google results, the Hornet did use Merlins, not Griffons.
Wasn't there a strange looking Royal Navy beast that used Merlins?
That would be the Short Sturgeon target tug.
P J Macguire
Yep, that would be!
Vickers Wellington Mk2 (& Mk6) AW Whitley Mks IV, V & VII de Havilland Hornet Westland Welkin Bristol Beaufighter Mk2 (& MkV) Shorts Sturgeon (the Royal Navy beast) CASA 2111 Vickers Type 432 F7/41 North American XP-82, P-82B & P-82C Twin Mustang
plus any Lancaster, Lancastrian or Lincoln testbed that had the outboard engines replaced by other piston / turbojet / turboprop engines.
Jon.
The Hornet used Merlin 133/134 engines in slimmed down nacelles. Not Griffons, just look how much bigger the late Spit's are with Griffons. The Beaufighter Mk II and V (Test mainly) used to Merlins as well.
ok, so I got the engine in the Hornet wrong, but I did not bad just streight from memory
Gondor
Whirlwind with Peregrines.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
The Spanish AF had He-111s equipped with twin Merlins. These were used as German aircraft in the movie Battle of Britain.
Which aren't Merlins.
Those are the CASA 2111s.
I've often wondered what a Whirlwind would have been capable of with twin Merlins. Anybody ever see any prospective performance figures from Westland or the R.A.E.?? For that matter, I've also been curious what a Lockheed P-38 with Merlin 61s would have been capable of?
Bill Shuey
You are quite right. I didn't quote 'Gondor' who mentioned other R-R twins but left out the Whirlwind. I jumped in with that because I've always found that one fascinating and I wonder as Bill S. does below what they could have done with Merlins.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
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