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Lee Stewart · #**31301** 10-13-2022, 04:16 PM

March 2nd, 1942. The location, the caption says, is a Rolls-Royce Merlin factory “in the northwest of England.”

Both Spitfires and P51 Mustangs used the Merlin engine. But this photo would be Merlins for the Spitfires.

Lee Stewart · #**31302** 10-13-2022, 04:22 PM

Lee Stewart · #**31303** 10-13-2022, 04:22 PM

**olredalert** · #**31304** 10-13-2022, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

March 2nd, 1942. The location, the caption says, is a Rolls-Royce Merlin factory “in the northwest of England.”

Both Spitfires and P51 Mustangs used the Merlin engine. But this photo would be Merlins for the Spitfires.

----Huge props to these wonderful young ladies that kept our brave boys in the air fighting the good fight!!!....Bill S

Lee Stewart · #**31305** 10-14-2022, 01:12 AM

When a meteorite mashed a Chevrolet in New York

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On October 9, 1992, at 7:50 p.m. EDT—30 years ago this week—18-year-old Michelle Knapp was watching television in her parents’ home in Peekskill, New York, when she heard a loud, metallic crash. She thought it was a car accident. Scrambling outside, Knapp discovered a hole in the trunk of her red-orange 1980 Malibu sedan. Beneath the hole, embedded in the gravel driveway, was a bowling ball–sized rock that was warm to the touch and smelled like sulfur. Shaped like a football, it was only about a foot in diameter, but it was heavy for its size—about 27 pounds.

Lee Stewart · #**31306** 10-14-2022, 02:27 AM

One of my favorite photos.

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