British people are 'nasty' and ‘arrogant’ - Chuck Yeager

lasermonkey

Yeager was always scathing of the Spitfire, but plenty of his countrymen who flew them in the Eagle Squadrons before transferring to P-47s and then P-51s much preferred it.

Fretwired

lasermonkey said:

RAF ground crew "erks" loved getting hold of the Packard Merlin, as each one came with a particularly nice toolkit.
 I wonder how many of those still exist?

The Packard's were used in the Lancaster bomber so the RAF got their hands on them. Rolls produced a variant of the Merlin for high-altitude performance and the Yanks made thousands of them. A tweaked version was used in the Mustang.

There are still loads of them around.

lasermonkey

Sorry, I meant the toolkit!

Troy

Fretwired said:

Jalapeno said:

Yeager's also on Twitter contradicting someone about the Mustang Merlin engine - saying Packard built it and it wasn't a British design ....

So my earlier assertions of Yeager's infallibility are misplaced - he's a jingoistic old twat !

Probably thinks the Yanks designed the Spitfire ...

Well I watched the film about Americans cracking the enigma code, must be true was in a film...