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Old 9th Jan 2009, 11:08
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Dick Whittingham
 
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The engine looks like a Bristol Pegasus/Mercury, nine cylinders, around 900hp. The arrangement of the tappet covers and the head finning looks right, and is quite different from P&w or Wright engines of a similar era. It's a long shot, but the Pegasus was fitted to the Swordfish, so it may be a WW2 relic.

The structural remains look like bits of a steel tube fabricated spar or fuselage, possibly an engine mount, as it is too solid for most of the Stringbag.

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