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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:04:56 AM EDT
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Yup, sit on top of the engine, a drive shaft between the seats, and a transmission behind your head. My dad blames his hearing loss on the one he flew. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Anyone ever take a ride in a H-34? Yup, sit on top of the engine, a drive shaft between the seats, and a transmission behind your head. My dad blames his hearing loss on the one he flew. Flying "Boxcars" were a hoot too. "Vomit Comet". |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:06:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:20:16 AM EDT
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Radials are awesome, except for all the oil they puke on to the underside of the plane. I spent a lot of time cleaning the bottom of a Yak52 Well what do you expect from a Russian plane? |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:23:28 AM EDT
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My brother during his first employment as a AMP got to spend a lot of time on a Grumman Albatross that used the Wright cyclone 9's. Told me that other than the fact that they burned a crap ton of oil, they were relatively easy to work on. Biggest problem finding parts to keep it running, and keeping the fuel tank's sealed.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:27:57 AM EDT
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I hate it when you blow a jug and can't see the runway due to all the oil.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 6:25:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 6:30:35 AM EDT
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Needs more P-47 Needs more Wasp Major https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major_1.jpg/1024px-Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major_1.jpg There is something wrong with the photo, it's not on fire. 
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Posted: 6/28/2015 6:33:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryI read an article that when JJ built that, he had gotten bad information about which way it would spin. Bike wanted to go backward, so he had to redo the gearing. Cool bike. There's video on YouTube, the guy that owns it brought it to Jay Leno's Garage. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 6:33:21 AM EDT
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Ahh… the big round fat sound. I miss it so. I remember a couple of old guys sitting around the airport longing for the days gone by. Then one of them started listing all the things that use to suck and how far we'd come. Now I'm starting to sound like those old guys. When did that happen...
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Posted: 6/28/2015 7:14:30 AM EDT
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Saw the FM2 Wildcat aerobatic routine recently. That engine makes a really nice sound. Google up Grumman Wildcat aerobatics.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 7:29:11 AM EDT
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Count me in as a radial lover. Cool pics!
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Posted: 6/28/2015 7:35:33 AM EDT
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More isbetter right?
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Posted: 6/28/2015 7:53:02 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 7:59:27 AM EDT
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Needs more P-47 Needs more Wasp Major https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major_1.jpg/1024px-Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major_1.jpg that looks complicated as hell,must be a nightmare to work on.  Perhaps but you can't have a B-36 without [six]. https://p1.pichost.me/i/29/1525313.jpg Don't forget 4 jets too. MY dad was a flight engineer on the B-36. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 8:08:19 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 8:33:23 AM EDT
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My ol' man flew DC-6s and DC-7s for Delta, the -7s, like the Super Connies, had Wright turbo compounds. Famous for overheating and eating oil. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The engine of the B-29 and Lockheed L-1649 Constellation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Wright_Cyclone_GR_3350_1.jpg/1280px-Wright_Cyclone_GR_3350_1.jpg Start Up vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3MBmS3APP0 Super Constellation start up, taxiing and take off runway 28 at ZRH : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4xo6kWDZM My Dad was the Senior Flight Engineer Instructor on B-29s @ Alamogordo and Chief Flight Engineer on the Lockheed L-1649 Connie @ Skunkworks. He'll be 96 this October. His CO of the School, Otto Mueller passed away a few years ago. They kept in contact till Otto's passing. Dad called Johnson (skunkworks) Clarence in private conversation and Mr. Johnson if anyone was in hearing distance, never Kelly. He said the latest rendition of the R-3350 was hard as hell to overheat and that it was a "wonderful" engine. I wish he would sit down with a writer and give an oral history. BTW, he was assigned to Jackie Cochran when she purchased a C-140 to break a few world records. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 8:39:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryMy bike had about 1/8th of a radial engine!
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Posted: 6/28/2015 8:58:08 AM EDT
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Needs more R-4360-51 VDT and it's 2 turbochargers and supercharger to make 4300 horsepower.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 9:08:01 AM EDT
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I like the sound of a radial engine
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Posted: 6/28/2015 9:09:16 AM EDT
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Needs more R-4360-51 VDT and it's 2 turbochargers and supercharger to make 4300 horsepower. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/WB-50D.JPG Three or four posts above yours 
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Posted: 6/28/2015 9:13:04 AM EDT
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I like the sound of a radial engine It sounds best when you're directly behind it. 
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Posted: 6/28/2015 9:54:53 AM EDT
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A Merlin sounds kinda sexy and elegant, I'll give you that. But a R-2800 Double Wasp sounds like it's going to drag you into an alley, beat you to death with your own spinal cord, and then use your corpse to put on a Punch and Judy show for your widow. The sound downright nasty, and thus are awesome. 
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Jug and Corsair FTW !! However, NOTHING sounds as good as the Merlin. A Merlin sounds kinda sexy and elegant, I'll give you that. But a R-2800 Double Wasp sounds like it's going to drag you into an alley, beat you to death with your own spinal cord, and then use your corpse to put on a Punch and Judy show for your widow. The sound downright nasty, and thus are awesome.
20 years ago , I was lucky enough to Awaken to the sound of twin 2800s rumble over My house every morning. (mail plane). I have a cylinder head from an A-26 on My living room shelf. I consider the R-2800 the finest recipe engine ever built. 
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Posted: 6/28/2015 10:00:56 AM EDT
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20 years ago , I was lucky enough to Awaken to the sound of twin 2800s rumble over My house every morning. (mail plane). I have a cylinder head from an A-26 on My living room shelf. I consider the R-2800 the finest recipe engine ever built.
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Jug and Corsair FTW !! However, NOTHING sounds as good as the Merlin. A Merlin sounds kinda sexy and elegant, I'll give you that. But a R-2800 Double Wasp sounds like it's going to drag you into an alley, beat you to death with your own spinal cord, and then use your corpse to put on a Punch and Judy show for your widow. The sound downright nasty, and thus are awesome.
20 years ago , I was lucky enough to Awaken to the sound of twin 2800s rumble over My house every morning. (mail plane). I have a cylinder head from an A-26 on My living room shelf. I consider the R-2800 the finest recipe engine ever built.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 11:36:20 AM EDT
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Round engine is best engine. One of my neighbors has a Hawker Sea Fury. 3350 cubic inches of awesomeness! Hot Damm! Does his have the 5 blade prop? I've only seen one of those but was very impressed! You need to post some videos of it, and AUDIO! Wait! Never mind. Turn your speakers WAY up and then click here Sea Fury.wmv and go to the 3:00 minute mark. This one has the Bristol Centaurus sleeve valve engine. Pure awesome engine roar! I spent three+ years flying EC-121s in the 1970s. They were equipped with the Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engines. Probably the ultimate radial engine ever built. These engines used three power-recovery turbines and developed over 3700 horsepower each! You can get a good idea of what they sounded like here at the 3 minute and 6 minute mark. My hearing has never recovered! In fact, this aircraft #53-0548 is one of the ones that I flew! It's a T model and lacks the upper radome since the height finding RADAR was replaced with special QRC equipment. The only radial that I have is a Morton M-5. It's an unassembled factory kit and still has the tiny Champion spark plugs in their boxes, the original 2 bladed aluminium prop with the adjustable blades and all of the original paper work with including complete blue prints, ads for accessories, etc in the original envelope and postmarked Oct (IIRC) 1941. I bought it from the original owner in 1985 and it's never been assembled. I was going to finish it but it's just too unique the way that it is. It's probably the only original unbuilt kit in existance. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 11:58:17 AM EDT
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I uploaded more pictures from the air show where I took those radial pics. There were lots of other planes, military, experimental, etc, that I also got pictures of. But these are most of the older ones. 
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:06:44 PM EDT
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Radial rotary for the win!! No. Just no. Regular radial is sex, rotary radial is just goofy. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:07:01 PM EDT
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Hey, the LeRhone is not a 'radial'.  It's a 'rotary'. !Leave it to the French t built and engine where the crankshaft was fixed and the entire engine rotated around it! Still, it was a surprisingly good engine in it's day! PS the idea behind making the engine rotate was to increase the engine coolling. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:08:47 PM EDT
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Needs more P-47 Needs more Wasp Major https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major_1.jpg/1024px-Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major_1.jpg that looks complicated as hell,must be a nightmare to work on. Perhaps but you can't have a B-36 without [six]. https://p1.pichost.me/i/29/1525313.jpg And you forgot the four jet turbine engines! |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:11:05 PM EDT
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Leave it to the French t built and engine where the crankshaft was fixed and the entire engine rotated around it! Still, it was a surprisingly good engine in it's day! PS the idea behind making the engine rotate was to increase the engine coolling. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Hey, the LeRhone is not a 'radial'. It's a 'rotary'. !Leave it to the French t built and engine where the crankshaft was fixed and the entire engine rotated around it! Still, it was a surprisingly good engine in it's day! PS the idea behind making the engine rotate was to increase the engine coolling. It probably did improve cooling markedly, but I can only imagine the amount of maintenance required on seals, sliprings, etc. The gyroscopic force of that big hunk of spinning metal had to be impressive, too.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:16:07 PM EDT
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That is bad ass! X2! I'd put that right up there with the 426 Hemi for pure awesomeness! |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:19:41 PM EDT
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the small country airport near us gets a lot of fly in traffic there was a T-2 Texan there in Navy Blue yesterday I knew I should have stopped and
gotten some pics.... |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:21:32 PM EDT
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I hate it when you blow a jug and can't see the runway due to all the oil. Wait! When did you fly on a Super Connie? Uncle Sam's Misguided Children HATED us after we thoroughly oiled up their runway at Cherry Point and they had to scrub it clean by hand! We were actually invited NOT to return! "Fill the oil and check the fuel!" 4x R-3350s. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:26:23 PM EDT
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My Dad was the Senior Flight Engineer Instructor on B-29s @ Alamogordo and Chief Flight Engineer on the Lockheed L-1649 Connie @ Skunkworks. He'll be 96 this October. His CO of the School, Otto Mueller passed away a few years ago. They kept in contact till Otto's passing. Dad called Johnson (skunkworks) Clarence in private conversation and Mr. Johnson if anyone was in hearing distance, never Kelly. He said the latest rendition of the R-3350 was hard as hell to overheat and that it was a "wonderful" engine. I wish he would sit down with a writer and give an oral history. BTW, he was assigned to Jackie Cochran when she purchased a C-140 to break a few world records. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The engine of the B-29 and Lockheed L-1649 Constellation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Wright_Cyclone_GR_3350_1.jpg/1280px-Wright_Cyclone_GR_3350_1.jpg Start Up vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3MBmS3APP0 Super Constellation start up, taxiing and take off runway 28 at ZRH : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4xo6kWDZM My Dad was the Senior Flight Engineer Instructor on B-29s @ Alamogordo and Chief Flight Engineer on the Lockheed L-1649 Connie @ Skunkworks. He'll be 96 this October. His CO of the School, Otto Mueller passed away a few years ago. They kept in contact till Otto's passing. Dad called Johnson (skunkworks) Clarence in private conversation and Mr. Johnson if anyone was in hearing distance, never Kelly. He said the latest rendition of the R-3350 was hard as hell to overheat and that it was a "wonderful" engine. I wish he would sit down with a writer and give an oral history. BTW, he was assigned to Jackie Cochran when she purchased a C-140 to break a few world records. Your dad has had some amazing experiences. If nothing else, buy an audio and or video recorder and do an interview with him yourself and record it all and give it to the US Library of Congress' Veterans project. Even if your dad wasn't a veteran, his experiences still make his interviews extremely valuable. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:28:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:35:48 PM EDT
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It probably did improve cooling markedly, but I can only imagine the amount of maintenance required on seals, sliprings, etc. The gyroscopic force of that big hunk of spinning metal had to be impressive, too.Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Hey, the LeRhone is not a 'radial'. It's a 'rotary'. !Leave it to the French t built and engine where the crankshaft was fixed and the entire engine rotated around it! Still, it was a surprisingly good engine in it's day! PS the idea behind making the engine rotate was to increase the engine coolling. It probably did improve cooling markedly, but I can only imagine the amount of maintenance required on seals, sliprings, etc. The gyroscopic force of that big hunk of spinning metal had to be impressive, too.The best pilots learned to use the counter force of the engine rotation to THROW their aircraft out of the line of fire. They said that NO other plane could keep up with their rate of turn but it was a very dangerous maneuver and frequently the aircraft would go completely out of control so only the best pilots dared try it. IIRC I read about this in a book written about the French ace Georges Guynemer. Power up at take off must have been hairy! A lot like taking off in a Corsair. Engine torque in it would frequently make the plane swerve off the runway. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:44:56 PM EDT
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGeSIM_8BHY Tank engine in a beetle |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:12:14 PM EDT
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The engine of the B-29 and Lockheed L-1649 Constellation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Wright_Cyclone_GR_3350_1.jpg/1280px-Wright_Cyclone_GR_3350_1.jpg Start Up vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3MBmS3APP0 Super Constellation start up, taxiing and take off runway 28 at ZRH : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4xo6kWDZM R-3350's? Dad said everytime they came in from patrol in VN (EC-121), they had "two turnin and two burnin"..... |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:14:14 PM EDT
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http://americaloveshorsepower.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/alh-radial-engine-motor-powered-vw-bug.jpg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGeSIM_8BHY Tank engine in a beetle That is freaking awesome, but it looks like it would be mighty light in the front! Needs more wheelie bar. |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:18:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:52:11 PM EDT
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Recently visited Pensacola NAS
I let my 13yr old daughter use my old PENTAX DSLR these are here pics... " OMG it SPINS ! " Camel with LeRone rotary... You could actually turn it by hand and watch the pushrods actuate
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Posted: 6/28/2015 2:05:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 2:13:00 PM EDT
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The Connnie, 144 spark plugs flying in formation.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 2:41:53 PM EDT
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I've been fortunately to have gotten the chance to fly in a b-17 when it came by, and last time I was in orlando I had the chance to get in an AT-6 and fly for a bit with some acrobatics. Next time anyone has to make a trip out to disney world in florida, do a search for warbirds museum they have sightseeing flights and also acrobatic flights and a mean looking p51 running a griffin with a twin prop setup they run at reno.
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Posted: 6/28/2015 2:47:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWOW I bet that #3 cylinder hanging down took a beating on dirt roads |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 4:37:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 4:48:02 PM EDT
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Continental R-975 |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 4:56:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 5:00:24 PM EDT
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Here's an unusual radial engined aircraft. Kamov KA-26:
You can buy your own, it's not even that expensive: http://www.planecheck.com/index.asp?ent=da&id=10938&cor=y |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 5:07:18 PM EDT
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ETA: 
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Posted: 6/28/2015 5:14:44 PM EDT
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Here's an unusual radial engined aircraft. Kamov KA-26: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BRNn0-rDDxU/maxresdefault.jpg You can buy your own, it's not even that expensive: http://www.planecheck.com/index.asp?ent=da&id=10938&cor=y HSL-1. You can't buy one but the Wright 2800 is pretty prominent: 
Pinnacle radial-engined helo: H-37 Mohave had two 2800s. 
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