Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

[cjforumadmin]

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Site-of-the-Week-Enginehistory.org.html

[38P]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

Here's the greatest: http://www.enginehistory.org/NASM/NomadE145-1.jpg The Napier Nomad (Photo: Kimble D. McCutcheon via the Aircraft Engine Historical Society). "A 12-cylinder two-stroke turbo-compounded Diesel, the Nomad was one of the most complex and fuel-effecient engines ever built."

Of course the aero-gearheads argue about which mill's the greatest with almost as much fervor as Bangshifters dispute the all-motor vs. nitrous vs. blower vs. turbo debate. See http://www.enginehistory.org/phpbb/v...c52ce7b343e37c

[Monster]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

My favorite are rotory engines ... the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Wasp Major" was the largest aircraft piston engine to be mass produced in the United States, with 28 cylinders, 56 manually-adjustable valves, and 56 spark plugs !!

[studemax]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

Oh, man - I'm gonna spend hours looking through that website!

[mustang13]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

Corn Cob is one of my fav's....http://www.ohtm.org/edu_col.html.

[dieselgeek]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

My favorite are rotory engines ... the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Wasp Major" was the largest aircraft piston engine to be mass produced in the United States, with 28 cylinders, 56 manually-adjustable valves, and 56 spark plugs !!

errr, you mean Radial?

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

starts in 1955

[Silver68RT]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

My favorite are rotory engines ... the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Wasp Major" was the largest aircraft piston engine to be mass produced in the United States, with 28 cylinders, 56 manually-adjustable valves, and 56 spark plugs !!

http://www.olympicjet.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=30

If this wasn't clear across the country, I might be tempted. $5000 for an R-4360. I've got Graham White's books on the R-2800 and the R-4360, and they're fascinating. There's a guy on one of the warbird message boards who's got 3 fresh R-4360's in their shipping cans down in Texas. I got really interested in the history of the F2G Super Corsair air racers a couple of years ago, and they used the R-4360. It's a pretty neat story. I'd love to make it out to Reno one year to see the air races.

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Fea1/001-100/Fea048_F2G-Corsair_Williams/00a.shtm

BTW - rotary aircraft engines were the WW1 engines where the crank was fixed and the whole rest of the engine spun around it. The R-4360 is classified as a radial engine. The cylinders are arranged in a radial pattern around a fixed crankcase, and the crankshaft spins.

[mustang13]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

Ford X-8

[mustang13]

Re: Site of the Week: Enginehistory.org

Allison Double-V-24. 3000HP!!!