How One $3 Bolt Saved 8,400 Merlin Engines and Turned the RAF’s Fate Around
Автор: Underground Chronicles
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January 1943. The skies above Europe were a brutal, ceaseless battleground. For the Royal Air Force, the war was a fight not just of men and machines but of relentless engineering innovation and industrial endurance. At the center of this struggle was the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine — the mighty heart that powered Britain’s finest fighters and bombers. From the nimble Spitfire to the versatile Mosquito and the heavy Lancaster bomber, the Merlin was the indispensable force that kept Britain’s hopes aloft.
But by the winter of 1943, a silent crisis was unfolding. It was a crisis that threatened to ground entire squadrons, to drain morale, and to imperil the RAF’s capacity to wage war effectively. The problem was small, almost trivial in size — a single bolt costing just three dollars. Yet this tiny piece of metal would come to symbolize the fragile balance between technological triumph and catastrophic failure.
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