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If you want to watch the full video of the engine sound:
If you grew up in Britain before the nineteen nineties, and lived near the coast, there is a fair chance you heard this.
Four Rolls-Royce Griffons. Thirty-seven litres apiece, at five hundred feet, looking for submarines.
The crews called it the Growler.
And it deafened them. The majority of the men who flew the Shackleton are permanently high tone deaf.
Eight propeller discs. Twenty-four blades, turning in line with the men on the flight deck. The prototype had soundproofing in it, and it was taken out before a single aeroplane reached a squadron.
Britain flew it like that until nineteen ninety-one. The last piston-engined aeroplane in front-line service in the Royal Air Force.
This is the story of the Rolls-Royce Griffon.
To understand why Britain could not stop flying it, you have to go back to the problem it was built to solve.
Credit to : METTLE
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