Engine Beauty

The RE8 (at Duxford) can double those pipes. Pity neither aircraft will fly again. 🙁
mmitch

😀 I went to Shuttleworth last year and was fascinated by the engine on the LVG,watching all the rockers and tappets whizzing up and down was a wonderful treat 😀
Looking at the vertical exhaust ,another work of art,oh the young chap in the photo is one of our forumites,i’ll let you guess who for a while 😀

big is certainly beautiful, but…
…here’s my Seidel 7cyl radial, it will eventually power a 1/5th scale F2G Super Corsair model.
It has a capacity of 70ccm and Max RPM is about 5500/min
The valves and rods are not covered and at very low RPM you can see each single movement of them, just beautiful, as is the sound of it.

Flo

That JAP motor has to be aero engines in it’s simplest purist form…

Why not 😀

Two engines on display at Hendon. Perhaps not beautiful but you can ‘see’ the power even if they will never run again.
1. Napier Sabre cutaway.
(Somebody suggested on a thread recently that perhaps replicas could be built!)
2. Rolls Royce Sea Griffon. Used in high speed launches etc.
mmitch.

Yes, the corncob, power-weight ratio 1 lb/horsepower!
Installed on the B-50A, Convair B-36 Peacemaker, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster, the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter/KC-97 Stratotanker, the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, and the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II.

Here’s something interesting I found on the R-4360 you all might appreciate.
To think these produced up to 3800hp on B-36.
Unreal !!

(http://www.enginehistory.org/r-4360.htm)

The mightiest radial

Here’s a sectioned Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major R-4360, with its 28 cylinders that once produced 3000 horsepower.
Displayed at The Tennessee Museum of Aviation, Sevierville.

Once at So St. Paul, MN for the CAF show there was an R-4360 sitting out on display next to Bob Odegaard’s F2G Super Corsair. What an amazing engine! And what a great fool I am for not snapping a photo of the engine.

Is that the engine they called the “corncob”?

Once at So St. Paul, MN for the CAF show there was an R-4360 sitting out on display next to Bob Odegaard’s F2G Super Corsair. What an amazing engine! And what a great fool I am for not snapping a photo of the engine.

Great shots Guys, I have lost the photo now, But as a Teen I helped at Essendon Airport, Restoring a Ex N.Z Hardvard T-6, Nice Engine, But what really Blew me away every time I came in to the hanger was a R.R. Griffon on an engine stand, We had a complete Firefly at the back of the hanger, Which Graham from C/Wings thinks is now with Eddie Kurdziel in Colorado Now. I spent a lot of time flying it in the hanger, But getting back to Engines the Griff was awesome, Tally Ho, Phil.

How about this for a coffee table…….

http://home.pacbell.net/geetumor/index_pic13.html

Here’s another. This is the nose Lycoming R-680 on Greg Herrick’s 1931 Stinson SM-6000-B Tri-Motor. According to the Fantasy of Flight site, Greg Herrick’s and Kermit Weeks’ are the only two high wing Stinson Tri-motors left.

With Shuttleworth caption. 🙂
mmitch.

Lovely photos there J.V. Will have to make an effort to get over to see her in the flesh…
OAW

Nice pics guys!

Yes Turbo NZ. Old engines are nice! I personaly like the Siemens SH 14 used on planes as the FW44, Bucker Bu133 and the VL Viima. See the nice engine on these shots of the Viima:

J.V.

I like the exposed JAP on the Dart Kitten. Alan has done a lovely job on that engine. It replaced another younger JAP that was on there last year. He works on yhe engines himself and then gets it all signed off. Really nice bloke.
OAW

Well I can’t say I’m a fan of the 0-200 though….ie Cessna 152/172 engine.

Amazing how beautiful some engines look, having said that I’m twisted, I even like the look of the old beetle engine. No accounting for the taste of some people is there?