And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
try keeping one leak free long enough for delivery....... Evergreen Air museum in McMinville OR has a motorized cutaway like this, also the Air Museum in Tucson has one.
Top pik, dead center, the safety wires preventing the castle nuts from reversing loose from vibration. My dad worked on these engines in Japan in the late 40's, in C119 flying boxcars, etc. He was a master mechanic and could fix anything.
28 cylinders, 56 spark plugs and , if memory serves, 4 magnetoes. Just a routine engine inspection is an all day job…
ReplyDeletetry keeping one leak free long enough for delivery.......
ReplyDeleteEvergreen Air museum in McMinville OR has a motorized cutaway like this, also the Air Museum in Tucson has one.
Jet engines were the best thing to happen to aviation.
ReplyDeleteTop pik, dead center, the safety wires preventing the castle nuts from reversing loose from vibration. My dad worked on these engines in Japan in the late 40's, in C119 flying boxcars, etc. He was a master mechanic and could fix anything.
ReplyDeleteNo fault codes
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the ratio of running hours / servicing hours was.
ReplyDeleteAggie, as a general rule, oil changes are every 100 hours for piston engines.
ReplyDeleteThe R-3350 while of lower displacement, 3350 cubic inches, duh, in 18 cylinders produced 3700 horses for takeoff, that's performance!
ReplyDeleteBack when America could win a war....
ReplyDeleteAlso wild, Bristol Centaurus
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When it was unclear which valve design would be
more successful.
The " Corncob "!
ReplyDeleteFound in the A-1 Skyraiders used in Veetnam?
ReplyDeleteThe Skyraider has an R - 3350 twin row.
DeleteStill pretty dang big.
All those cylinders in a round engine - not very practical, but beautiful.
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