Aircraft Sounds I: Vought Corsair and also the Merlin engine
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The Corsair's most unique feature
was the "bent" wing, the result of a marriage between the most powerful
engine ever installed in a piston-engine fighter and one of the biggest
propellers in the world. But from these seemingly outsized and
mismatched parts came one of WWII greatest fighter planes.
F4U flyby
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P51 Mustang flyby: Merlin engine
Named the Merlin, this engine was made famous by the
Spitfires and Hurricanes that won the Battle of Britain. Just a few of
the aircraft that utilized the Merlin engines: