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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:10:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:15:34 PM EDT
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Beautiful pics. I can always pick out a radial engine going overhead, it's unfortunately a sound you don't hear too often any more. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:24:25 PM EDT
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Those are cooler than Hell! We're those all at the same show?
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:26:00 PM 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
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:26:31 PM EDT
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Those are cooler than Hell! We're those all at the same show? Yeah, it was an antique aircraft fly-in. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:26:53 PM EDT
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Here is my contribution. Two of the most beautiful aircraft ever made.
ETA, I have no pics of radials to contribute OP, just figured I'd share that video. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:28:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:28:17 PM EDT
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Beautiful pics. I can always pick out a radial engine going overhead, it's unfortunately a sound you don't hear too often any more. Yes. A very distinct sound. I'll bet that three cylinder sounds weird though. 
And to not love the sound of a radial engine is just unAmerican. 
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:28:42 PM EDT
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Needs more P-47
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:30:18 PM EDT
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Round engine is best engine.
One of my neighbors has a Hawker Sea Fury. 3350 cubic inches of awesomeness! |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:30:27 PM EDT
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I'll bet that three cylinder sounds weird though.
No triples in those pictures. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:31:44 PM EDT
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As I don't have a membership right now, If someone would be kind enough to embed these. The bottom video has the best of both war bird engine styles.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osHYUaUwVc8[/youtube] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpazYI0SGtg[/youtube] |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:36:46 PM EDT
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Love me some radial engine! Such a cool sound. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:37:26 PM EDT
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Dear God yes - what a lost art.
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:38:32 PM EDT
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Needs more P-47 Needs more Wasp Major 
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:44:29 PM EDT
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Hell yeah, they also make great dinner tables!
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:47:31 PM EDT
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No triples in those pictures. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'll bet that three cylinder sounds weird though.
No triples in those pictures. Oops! You're right.
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:47:37 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. 
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:47:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:50:17 PM EDT
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Jug and Corsair FTW !!
However, NOTHING sounds as good as the Merlin. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:50:59 PM EDT
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Love the sound of radial engines.
I grew up in crop duster country and back in the day they all had radials. I could hear them most days at some point during the summer. In college I worked for a guy that was a Stearman rebuilder. Got some good Stearman rides and even some stick time on occasion (no solo though). I used to hear a DC3 fly over every now and then. I would always stop and listen to them. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:52:29 PM EDT
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Got one,
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:53:40 PM EDT
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Yeah, here is a picture you will never see anywhere else.
I'm flying the Stearman PT17 in the lead and my buddy is flying what was then the only YPT-15 (Saint Louis Street Car) before he sold it and it was subsequently wrecked. My buddy owned both of these airplanes when this picture was taken.  |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:54:39 PM EDT
[#23]
I love radial engines.
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Posted: 6/27/2015 10:56:56 PM EDT
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Hey, the LeRhone is not a 'radial'.
 It's a 'rotary'. !
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:00:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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.  |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:02:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hey, the LeRhone is not a 'radial'. It's a 'rotary'. !OMG it spins!!!  |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:07:47 PM EDT
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Radial rotary for the win!!
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:09:24 PM EDT
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that looks complicated as hell,must be a nightmare to work on. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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]. 
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:11:58 PM EDT
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I always wanted a T-28
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:12:31 PM EDT
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The engine of the B-29 and Lockheed L-1649 Constellation:
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 |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:13:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I always wanted a T-28 Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile  |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:14:45 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 
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:15:48 PM EDT
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Cool thread, utterly retarded title.
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:16:35 PM EDT
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As I don't have a membership right now, If someone would be kind enough to embed these. The bottom video has the best of both war bird engine styles.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osHYUaUwVc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpazYI0SGtg
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:17:27 PM EDT
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WASP major engines give me a chub
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:21:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted:
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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 http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/Planes/F2G_radial.jpg What a beast of a motor. Kinda at the end of being able to cool it with 4 rows. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:22:46 PM EDT
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Anyone ever take a ride in a H-34?
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:30:14 PM EDT
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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. |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:31:53 PM EDT
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I'll be in my bunk
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:33:28 PM EDT
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As I don't have a membership right now, If someone would be kind enough to embed these. The bottom video has the best of both war bird engine styles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osHYUaUwVc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpazYI0SGtg http://youtu.be/osHYUaUwVc8
http://youtu.be/fpazYI0SGtgThank you! |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:34:42 PM EDT
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learned how to wrench on aircraft with her. Yeah, i love radials.
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:35:11 PM EDT
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Some FiFi goodness.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUs1Jk6hMvI[/youtube] |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:40:33 PM EDT
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Here is a L modification.
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:47:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat is bad ass! |
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Posted: 6/27/2015 11:55:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:10:49 AM EDT
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I fly an R1340 most every day. Logged over 40hrs on it this week.
Helluva good engine for what it is, but junk by today's standards. P&W has not even supported the radials in 50-odd years. I have a counterweight prop too. Another PITA in itself. Between the engine and the prop, I can see good for about 5 minutes. I clean the windscreen up to 30-40 times a day! |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:25:21 AM EDT
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Nice pics....... . looking at these planes I thought if someone knew Bill Geissele . ask him to come up with a cleaner trigger to fire threw the prop. be all serous like. money no object. we have a test engine stand and spare props you can engineer a fire control. you can have all the 50 cal you want .
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Posted: 6/28/2015 12:44:27 AM 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 |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:02:09 AM EDT
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B-36 slogan: "two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking, and two more unaccounted for."
...problem was exacerbated by the propellers' pusher configuration, which increased carburetor icing. The design of the R-4360 engine tacitly assumed that it would be mounted in the conventional tractor configuration—propeller/air intake/28 cylinders/carburetor—with air flowing in that order. In this configuration... |
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Posted: 6/28/2015 1:03:25 AM EDT
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,double tap
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