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Old 4th Feb 2021, 15:48
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Originally Posted by ACW599
Will any of us ever hear a Napier Sabre in our lifetime? Its distant diesel cousin, the Deltic, made a wonderful racket in the eponymous railway locomotives.
Two Typhoons supposedly on the go, one in UK and one in Canada, plus Kermit Week's Tempest V - there is an additional Tempest V project which for sale having donated common parts to the UK Typhoon project (it says here...).

A couple of Centaurus Tempests are closest to flying I think, though it seems to have been the case for a very long time! More than 40 years since they first arrived back in the UK...
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