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.
Wright 3350 18 cylinder radials with power recovery turbines. In addition to the superchargers the PRTs spinning in the exhaust delivered torque straight to the crank. A lot of moving parts and a lot of Avgas. There are a few that are currenty airworthy.
The Connie. I flew San Diego to New Mexico, on one, in 1960. Yep, it was epic!
ReplyDeleteBite my tongue, but fugedabuncha radial engines or jets, Connie has to be the "Long Cool Woman" of all aircraft!
ReplyDeleteThat, sir, is well said!
DeleteIMO the most beautiful aircraft ever designed. Rode one from USA to Germany :-).
Deletelikes me sum triple tail
ReplyDeleteWright 3350 18 cylinder radials with power recovery turbines. In addition to the superchargers the PRTs spinning in the exhaust delivered torque straight to the crank. A lot of moving parts and a lot of Avgas. There are a few that are currenty airworthy.
ReplyDeleteAmazing how much hp gets thrown away in the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. IIRC, those PRT's recovered ~800 hp on that motor.
DeleteGreg’s Airplanes and Automobiles on YouTube has a good video on the PRT 3350s as used in the Douglas DC-7.
Deletehttps://youtu.be/gbMgwDIdScY?si=tx481OjRRvw5OcVa
PRT = Parts Recovery Trap, as I once overheard.
DeleteComing in at low altitude towards Chicago's Midway airport, as a kid I could see faces in the windows.
ReplyDeleteOne of the prettiest planes ever made.
ReplyDeleteMy buddy Paul flew those into hurricanes.
ReplyDeleteImagine the man hours and amount of craft work went into building them!
ReplyDeleteIsn't that an EC-121?
ReplyDeleteNo big bulging radomes.
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