It could also potentially be the non supercharged RR "Meteor" version they made for tanks. In fact it's quite likely as they are easier to get hold of these days, Merlins are like rocking horse shit to find now as they are so iconic and sough after (air racers are partly to blame).

Griffons are noticeably longer but it's hard to say without a size reference or a shot of the naked engine. I'm inclined to agree and say no though, if nothing else a good Griffon is probably even harder to find than a Merlin.

Whichever version it's still about the most fking awesome engine ever made! Nothing sounds quite like them, even the top German stuff. Such a shame they can't/won't make them anymore, I'm sure there's a big market .

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If you have a look at this picture, the rock seems to be falling at a constant velocity, as it should if it was a meteor fragment - it should be falling at its terminal velocity.
It's hard to judge distance and speed, but might be falling at - say 1-2 meters per frame. If it is shot at 25fps, this would mean that it's falling at 25-50m/s (90-180 km/h, 55-110mph, 80-160 ft/s) faster than the parachute jumper, and would be very close to a probable to the terminal velocity of a falling rock.

I retract my earlier statement.

@Payback If pic here is reliable doesn't look like it came from the chute. Also no one is even questioning where it came from. Seems they know.
http://www.universetoday.com/110963/norwegian-skydiver-almost-gets-hit-by-falling-meteor-and-captures-it-on-film/

I'm not sure why you say that it didn't go much faster than the jumper. It only stayed in the frame about 1/3 of a second even though it's not really that close. It may be slower than you might expect a meteorite to be going, but if it's a fragment from after the disintegration/explosion of a larger one it easily might have slowed to just terminal velocity, which seems about right to me from the video.
What made me wonder was the lack of any visible smoke/trail. It could just be a rock dropped from the plane above, even a real meteor dropped from the plane (in case someone found it before the jig was up that it was faked). True, it would be a lot of effort for little pay off, but people do dumber things.
Still unsure...1/2 expecting this to turn out to be a commercial...but for what?

C-Engines' right, a war wouldn't do anything unless you're talking about the systematic elimination of individuals behind an empire that's designed to instill a lasting, generational fear in those who would continue the push for ultimate power and control. The only changes that will come will be more total control unless a dialog manifests with meaning and purpose directed at the control mechanism's infrastructure by a majority of regular peeps unsullied by the indoctro-education of so-called knowledge of the the way the world works.

Until people stop trying to work within the framework of rules and engagement that has been created by the same perpetrators of our enslavement, the majority of our sentient, big-brained species may as well get used to the idea that the few freedoms you imagine yourselves to have now are illusion and your children will not enjoy one one-hundredth of that same illusion in 30 years.

Guerrilla-tactics with a broadband and well-coordinated take-down is the only way to end the paradigm that has been in place for thousands of years. That or some unifying world-wide catastrophic necessity for the survival of the species....like a frikkin' meteor storm some other worldwide natural disaster or some influence from without.

I figure no one has touched the moon. (Not due to conspiracy either) Once they moved the dust into the capsule, it's now part of the capsule. Touching it is merely touching the dirty insides of the capsule. A meteor blows a couple tons of moon into Earth, that is now Earth dirt.

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