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Blueprint detailing gun specifications and a schematic for a Spitfire aircraft.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 176\1\  img039
Date  1st March 1940 guessed
  
2 - 19.5 m {Mr Moon / Mr Moore} /m GUNS
135 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION PER GUN
RATE OF FIRE 480 ROUNDS PER MINUTE PER GUN.
MUZZLE VELOCITY 2880 FT/SEC
N FOR SPITFIRE AIRCRAFT.
ING GUNS + 300 ROUNDS PER GUN
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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