I'm not a big fan of having fuel tanks behind the engine, as in a crash, that is a recipe for crispy-critters. But for this, I'd get nomex.
Not sure why the cruise speed with a V-8 engine is higher than Vne, but the bugger does move along. A Mk V Spitfire was 90 knots faster, but it did have a much larger engine, even if those eight .303s added some weight.
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They don't have any engine specs on the V8 posted yet, so maybe they just haven't updated their Vne figure to account for the V8 yet?
Let's see, a Rolls Royce Merlin was a 27L 1650 cu in V-12, yeah, *slightly* larger than the 4.3L V6 or the 5.7L V8 on offer here ;).
-Badtux the Engine Penguin
A Spit with general motors engines. Too bad.
You mean you want the girl, right?
Saw, no, not this time. I want the airplane.
Nice touch reproducing the original stick design. I wonder how it would do against this reproduction.
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Well, to be fair, the original Spitfire XVI had a VNE of over 400mph, and even the IX could cruise at over 360mph.
But boy is that pretty, and for that much aircraft, a claimed 1200 hour build time is amazing.
Montag, those FW-190 and P-51 are full-sized with the engines to match. I'd rather buy a P-47 over a P-51, only because R-2800 engines are a lot easier to come by ()and far more reliable) than V-16 Merlins.
I'd like to see that Spit airframe beefed up for the Falconer engine. That would be a serious go-fast toy.
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