This Is How You Take The Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 Out Of A Spitfire

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Máté Petrány
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Goodwood is home to the Boultbee Flight Academy, the only place where you can learn how to fly a Supermarine Spitfire. There are only about fifty airworthy ones left, and Goodwood hosts two of them. And they need to work on them.

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Which also means they know how to maintain these WW2 beauties. Removing that Rolls-Royce engine is like getting out that BMW V12 from a McLaren F1: Wonderfully complex, but highly satisfying.

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