Yesterday, for the first time since 2001, we ran the Packard V-1650-7 Merlin engine on EAA founder Paul Poberezny's P-51D, Paul I! Sound on! | EAA - The Spirit of Aviation

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The P-51’s Hidden Power: How Packard’s Engineers “Americanized” Britain’s Merlin Engine and Built the Fighter That Won the Skies... August 2nd, 1941, Detroit, Michigan. Inside Packard Motorcar Company's East Grand Boulevard plant, two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines roared to life on test stands. But something was different. These weren't British engines. They were Americanmade copies built from British blueprints that Packard's engineers had completely rewritten. The crowd watching that day had no i

3.8M views · 78K reactions | Just arrived from Vintage V12's - AME Randy unveiling the Lancaster’s newly overhauled #4 Packard Merlin engine. Installation will begin soon to be ready for the flying season this summer. | Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum | Facebook

76K views · 2.5K reactions | Warbird A-Z: P is for Packard; the license built Packard Merlin accounted for 55,000 examples of the Rolls-Royce designed engine. The P-40F incorporated a Packard Merlin. #ww2 #ww2history #packard #merlin #warbirds | Daniel J Wheatcroft | Facebook

35K views · 1.5K reactions | Around 150,000 Rolls-Royce Merlin engines were produced, with about a third of that total being the license built Packard V-1650, produced in the USA. #ww2 #ww2history #WWII #rollsroyce #merlin | Daniel J Wheatcroft | Facebook