What's a "Pigeon Rest/breast”?
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What's a "Pigeon Rest/breast”?
Apparently according to this
IWM video I'm watching, one of the distinguishing features of the Mk IX Spitfire was a "longer nose with the pigeon rest beginning to disappear"
Also did the Mk I really have a three bladed prop? I thought they were wooden with two blades
Also did the Mk I really have a three bladed prop? I thought they were wooden with two blades
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It's definitely pigeon breast.
treadigraph, And very good they are too when cooked in red wine, garlic and herbes de provence!!!
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I guess successive Merlins must have got bigger or at least longer - makes sense
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thanks everyone - and yes breast makes perfect sense
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I have heard "Schwalbennest" in german language being used for inlet air scoops as well.
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Apparently according to this IWM video IWM video I'm watching, one of the distinguishing features of the Mk IX Spitfire was a "longer nose with the pigeon rest beginning to disappear"
Also did the Mk I really have a three bladed prop? I thought they were wooden with two blades
Also did the Mk I really have a three bladed prop? I thought they were wooden with two blades
The current airworthy Mk 1’s at Duxford have the three bladers that are correct.
19 Sqn Mk1’s with 2 blade props.
19 Sqn Mk1a spitfire 1940, note how the wing Roundels used to be way out nr the tip.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...40._CH1367.jpg
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What is squeezed in under the Mk 19’s cowl, though this is an ex Shack Griffon with a modified front end bearing to convert it to a single prop, and various bits shaved down to squeeze it in, such as shaving the lifting eyes off the rocker covers. Photo by me.