Round Engines

In article . com,
"Kingfish" wrote:

On Feb 12, 11:33 pm, Orval Fairbairn
wrote:
In article . com,

"Dave" wrote:
On Feb 12, 4:07 pm, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:
The Merlin is the best sounding engine of all time.

My office used to be under the final approach path for runway 15 at
SBA. One day I heard the unmistakable sound of a Merlin pass overhead.
But wait - that sounded like two merlins! What could that be - a
Mosquito?. I had to go look. Sure enough, it was a pair of Merlins -
on a Spanish-built JU-88. How's that for a rare bird? I read somehere
that it had been Franco's personal plane - and also that it later
crashed.

David Johnson

Are you sure that it wasn't a Heinkel? IIRC, the Spanish didn't have
JU-88s.

What a coinky-dink. I saw that plane out in Mesa at the AZ wing of the
CAF back in 2000. Assuming this is the same plane, it's a Spanish
(CASA) built He-111 that was lost in 2003. Some of those postwar
planes were retrofitted with Merlins in place of the original Jumo
engines.

Heinkels, IIRC, had DB engines, not Junkers. Yes -- the Spanish
converted their Heinkels and Messerschmitts to Merlins, from DB engines.

On Feb 13, 3:16 pm, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
Are you sure that it wasn't a Heinkel? IIRC, the Spanish didn't have
JU-88s.

What a coinky-dink. I saw that plane out in Mesa at the AZ wing of the
CAF back in 2000. Assuming this is the same plane, it's a Spanish
(CASA) built He-111 that was lost in 2003. Some of those postwar
planes were retrofitted with Merlins in place of the original Jumo
engines.

Heinkels, IIRC, had DB engines, not Junkers. Yes -- the Spanish
converted their Heinkels and Messerschmitts to Merlins, from DB engines.- Hide quoted text -

According to the source I found (Wiki), they had both. The He-111 H
models had Jumo 211's. IIRC most 111's did have the DB 600/601
engines like you said.