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A gleaming Packard-built Merlin installed in one of the engine’s best-known airframes, the North American P-51 Mustang. (Paul Bowen)
A gleaming Packard-built Merlin installed in one of the engine’s best-known airframes, the North American P-51 Mustang. (Paul Bowen)