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Dammit, this stuff looks so tempting. TBG, I think you're employed by the model aircraft business to infiltrate the railway modelling hobby. I hope they're paying you well because it's almost working. If it had a copper-capped chimney my last defences would crumble.

Well the DH hornet was basically a Look-a-like produced 4 years later, which was fitted with Merlins. That could do 475mph.

The Typhoon was also troubled by its power plant at altitude, IIRC, but came into its own at treetop height. I wonder what a Whirlwind might have been like with two Merlins? It would have been pretty nippy, I'd imagine, given the Peregine-engined one could manage 360 mph.

I do have an aircraft model in production cue, that has actual copper machine guns..

Yes, it makes you wonder? The Whirlwind gained the nickname 'Crikey' after an advert for the time for Shell petrol. showing a man attempting to look both ways at once trying to follow a speeding car. The advertisement strapline read; 'Crikey, thats Shell that was!!' Regards SIGTECH. (Steve)

Lovely model, This is my favorite aircraft. only two squadrons were operational during the war,and no.137 sqdn flew from RAF Manston in Kent - which was my local airfield for many years. As you said if only they had fitted them with Merlins... They were however good for ground attack and at low level, very well armed. Replaced by the HawkerTyphoon. Regards,Sigtech' I still have a 1/72 scale one (Airfix) to make one day!!

Me too! Well, more like 45 years. I suppose it was the Airfix kit

I remember building a 1/72 version of that almost 60 years ago - not to that standard, though!