I posted something about the Peregrine a while ago. The new forum’s very good but the search is hopeless, I can’t find it.
IIRC, the Peregrine was developed, from the Kestrel, to give minimum frontal area. They were also handed, i.e. one ran backwards. This turned out to be a bad idea and RR didn’t do it again, they used an idler gear for the Hornet.
I think Mark12 found something that said they made a very few Merlins with opposite rotation for some reason. No idea why.

Flood, I was about to argue with you that the Tempest II was quite a lot bigger.
The Fury/Sea Fury was planned as a smaller, lighter and faster Tempest follow-on, omitting the wing centre-section and fitting the outer wing sections together on the centreline.
I’ve never consciously compared the respective sizes before. I wonder what happened to the original plan. It ended up with 2′ 8″ less wingspan and 2″ shorter.
Not a huge difference in my opinion. 🙂

DHFan. You will just have to change your surname to Suffolk. 🙂

The Brain-damage is obviously well named. I hadn’t thought of that.

I’ve been drinking Brain-damage for longer than I care to remember. Or is it, am able to remember?
The last couple of times I tried there was no St Edmunds available. Seems to have been replaced by Strong Suffolk Ale.
Not fair if it has gone, my surname’s Edmonds.

Group shot. I’ll edit later and try to work out who’s who.
Seems to be:
Merlin70, Von Perthes, Robbo, Steve Patterson, Vanessa (Mrs Andy in Beds), DHFan, MikeJ, JDK, Snapper, Andy in Beds, EN830, Andrew O, Ashley, Steve Young, Flood, Learning Slowly.

That’s the plan, Steve.
Since we’ve got a 2 hour drive to get there, I suppose I should really go to bed instead of sit here in front of this box!

Obviuosly written by a Southern Jessy who likes flat beer that usually washes down pie and mash or a pot of jellied eels 😀 😀 😀 😀

Strange reasoning you have. My preferred ale strength is 4.5% to 5.5%.
Not childrens beer that you seem to think is strong.

I also like to receive all of the pint I’ve paid for, rather than the top inch being chemicals to help line the brewers/publicans pockets.

You’re obviously a bone-headed Northerner without an original thought where your brain should be.

See, I can do bigoted insults, too.