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
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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.
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