Thats why the napier deltic is so much better. No sparkplugs! 3 Crankshafts! 18 cylinders! 36 pistons! 2-Stroke Diesel! Sure, it's not meant to fly, but it will always be my favourite internal combustion engine. (I don't think it'd save any maintenence. The deltic had a volatile reputation, but it seems to have become more docile when they redesigned the pistons and later downrated it for railway use)
We had two at the aviation school I attended. It is still a marvel to look over that thing, knowing guys with slide rulers designed it. A true work of art and genius.
It's truly mind blowing. The SR-71 Blackbird is a marvel that was way ahead of its time also. I'd give up a body part for a ride in that beautiful piece of engineering. 😂
@@user-cz5kd4xe2u if i could have one of these id put it in a honda s2000 it would be 99% engine 1% honda 😂 just tap the gas in it does like seven 360 degree wheelies
Gotta love that famous Pratt n Whitney precision. The fact that they were able to make this without computers and using the tools of their time is astonishing
😂 yes me i have a garage that could fit the project aswell 😂 well if i showed up with that thing id get all the shop spcae i need just look at it 😂 you could fly the whole.shop with thay engine 😂 well atleast lift it a little😂 well maybe uf you took out all the tractors n foundation then this engine would lift the whole building easy 😂 anyways give to me i will make it fit in as2000 😂😂
They have a cross-sectioned Wasp Major at the Air and Space Museum by Dulles Airport outside of Washington DC. Seeing this thing in person is incredible. To imagine the engineering it took to design and build this thing in an era without computers. Some of the mechanical engineering in early aviation is borderline magic to me.
They aren't able to recreate some of the early space rockets(hand drawn) with computers either.and we still can't build a pyramid. I believe it's an indication we are in a knowledge decline.
@@animoetprudentia2865 I mean, we are building reusable rockets and plenty of new technology. I think as a whole we may be declining in intelligence but there are still intelligent people doing brilliant things and creating new technologies.
@@OpticalToxin creative ingenuity is our natural state as humans in my opinion. A 360° spectrum of creative potential. To certain pathological individuals this is/was both an existential threat and a resource to exploit. If you're curious to learn more look into the origins of standardized public education, and the true motives behind it. James Corbett has produced some excellent documentaries about the robber baron era in the US, their influence over education, the birth of modern "medicine", the privatisation of the Fed, the origins of propaganda, the suppression of technological inventions, the seizure of, and suppression of Nikola Tesla's inventions, and so forth. Elon isn't a genius, he hires geniuses and puts his name on it. Bill gates paid somebody else $500 to reverse engineer Steve Jobs operating system, which led to his first million dollar contract. The pathological always ride the backs of creative individuals to achieve their ambitions. Kids today can't read a clock with hands, can't do math without a calculator, can't spell without spell check. Most have zero life skills, which makes them totally dependant on the state, which is by design. There will always be individually motivated, industrious persons, but they're more the exception now than ever. The vast majority are dopamine addicted and enamored by smart tech and cyber space. Sheep staring at screens. Instead of being discouraged, it's ENCOURAGED. All by design.
I feel sorry for those who were born too late to witness 4 of those monsters coughing to life and then accelerating to a thundering takeoff roll. Truly an awesome experience.
Most aero engines are, don't know enough about planes to tell you why, but I've watched videos and it's relatively common to do both. If I remember right a few used NOS as well.
I was a mechanic on this engine with the 146th Air Guard at Van Nuys airport CA. The C-97s had four of these beasts. They also had alcohol injection. Changing the oil filters was difficult as one had to crawl backwards into the air scoop and the stand and reach above ghe head. Never done without oil all over the head. Also two spark plugs per cylinder for 56 total.
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@@kansangaminggod6341 Confused, but not rtrd. English isn't my first language. That rambling from @onemoremisfit made no sense to me. I'm better off with scientific publications, they do make sense. Do they to you?
It's actually 4 engines bolted together. They did this a lot during WWII with radial engines, ( usually just 2, not 4 because the second bank tended to over heat).
So a 1000 years from now people will be looking at these engines and say it would have been impossible for us to have built them w/o computers.... So aliens had to be involved, sort of like the pyramids
Aliens did build the pyramids. Martian nephelim from Mars. Revelation 12:7-9. The destruction of Mars without first evacuating everyone who lived there.
You have to look at the whole of mankinds history, how we invented and built the machines to further invent and build the machines to further invent and build .... you catch my drift? Everything we have right now is the product of thousands of years of research and engineering. And we are going even further and faster.
Would be awesome to have a fully function, itty-bitty scale model of one of these, just to start it up on my work bench daily, right when boss starts askin’ questions
@@tylerdurden3722 they ran peacemakers for 20 odd hour intervals. must have sucked for those ground crews having to remove one of these beautys after each flight
That TV show "American Pickers" Mike and Frank go to this couples house to see what they have for sale, the guy has one of these on a Skid and Starts it for them! They were Astonished! Once he turned it off, they were just laughing uncontrollably! When they were finished Mike kept shaking the guys hand and thanking him for Firing it up lol!😄👍
The same way cnc things are designed. Cnc starts as an idea then gets drawn in auto cad or master cam. The only difference is they drew it out on paper. And they more than likely used punch card machines for this to be honest. Basically old school cnc machines. Simply for repeatability for interchangeable parts.
Think about it, the SR-71 was built using calculations on slide rules! The engineering and craftsmanship it took to build highly advanced technology was simply amazing!
The R-4360 had the interesting characteristic that it could be shut down in working order, but the next time you tried to start it, something would be broken. As Bill Gunston wrote the ultimate generation of big piston engines were a great argument for jets.
What an absolutely beautiful monster of an engine! And the fact this was built before computers and CNC makes this an extremely impressive work of art and engineering talent!
My father worked on those things, specifically in the F2G2 He told me the trick... Fire it up and run it for 10 seconds... shut it off and find the coolest exaust pipe! I have done the same on a few V8's with headers. works every time!
I'm a machinist I build stuff for a living. I can make things out of pretty much any material known to man. And I cannot imagine trying to build this without using a 5-axis CNC equipment or some sort of computer software. Hats off to the old schools who built things like this because I know how hard it really is
There’s actually a lycoming 36 cylinder engine but I don’t believe it was mass produced. I’ve seen it in the udvar/hazey aviation museum. Massive piece of equipment
Prop planes are the best planes for CAS change my mind, and enemy air doesn't count either because that's not what CAS is supposed to deal with in the first place
Turbine engines are probably the most efficient combustion engines. E.g. That engine in the video is less then 20% effiecient (maybe even under 15%). While the Jet engine that replaced it was probably near 60% effiecient (while also being more compact, powerful, simpler and reliable). Capable of turning a lot of fuel into a lot of work doesn't mean its inefficient.
@@tylerdurden3722 I doubt that this engines even got 6% termal efficiency... they had about 5:1 comp ratio and needed to RUN RICH all the time (it was MARGINALLY better to be run "lean of peak", but MUCH harder on metalurgy thus worse longevity of the engine)
Well, both of those engines were water cooled and they only built two of the Lycomings. The Wasp Major flew millions of miles in hundreds of airliners.
It's 4 rows of 7 cylinders. Therefore, the firing order alternating per row is the same as any radial, first all the even numbered (2468) then the odd numbers (13579).
The SIU A& P program had a static display of one of these radial engins in the late 70's and early 80's. I hope they still have it. What a marvelous piece of enginering avaition history.
Wait, a power to weight ratio has units. Did you mean 1.1 hp/kg or perhaps 1.1 kW/kg?
1.11 hp/lb (1.82 kW/kg)
@@Tech_Planet Impressive! Thanks
I have always heard hp/lb
It's a Merican engine, so p/w ratio pounds per horse power.
@@tomclark6271 sorry that your country has no name...
Someone’s gonna try and put that thing in a Miata
The Honda civic with the laptop is already looking into expanding his engine bay
😂 here i am thinking "put a pair on a dc3" and there ya go with way bigger aspirations 😂🤣😂
You would tap the gas pedal and teleport into the North Pole
Someone put it on a motorcycle probs
Nah, just strap it on the back of the Daihatsu Midget and do a speedrun at the Salt Flats. 😅
A mechanic's nightmare
Or a cash cow 😉
My dad’s favorite puzzle as an army Air Force crew chief.
Nah that's Nice.
Todays mechanics, yes.
@@rwisswellI’m todays mechanic and would love to work on this engine
I’m amazed that there were mechanics that could tune, diagnose and repair this beast of twisted steel and horsepower.
Not mechanics... engineers
Right!? Man made before all the tech and computers made, this proves smartest people were before all that
My father was one of the mechanics.
He made that exact engine his personal goal in life.
As he told me 30 years later... "Highly unreliable!"
@@lagartx3 🤓
I’m amazed that there were engineers that could design and successfully build such an engine. Even if it was unreliable.
This was the first time in history that “more complexity means greater failure rates” was met with “fuck it, let’s make it anyway”.
They NEEDED them, 6 of them, on the large bombers that carried 2x nuclear bombs.
@@davelowets You talking about the Peacemaker?
They could also get shot full of holes and keep running.
how they made this very crazy difficulty engine moulding.
they didn't thinked of the first one at that time
RIP: The man who had to gap 56 spark plugs per engine
With 6 engines on B-36........🤯
Order pre gapped
Doesn’t take that long I don’t get this comment
@@928pcar they would pull all those plugs regularly and check for possible cylinder issues. Clean, regap, and replace. 56x4 on a B29.
@@928pcaryou've clearly never gapped 6 sets of 56 before
These things were a nightmare to maintain. They had 56 spark plugs and some of the top cylinders needed replacement every 25 hours, all every 75.
A week or 2 of work?
wonder if a set of iridiums would help? 😂
Thats why the napier deltic is so much better.
No sparkplugs! 3 Crankshafts! 18 cylinders! 36 pistons! 2-Stroke Diesel!
Sure, it's not meant to fly, but it will always be my favourite internal combustion engine.
(I don't think it'd save any maintenence. The deltic had a volatile reputation, but it seems to have become more docile when they redesigned the pistons and later downrated it for railway use)
I think they had to swap put the Me 262 jet engines after 30 hr.
Contrast with the Whipple: never (?)
Just buy Tesla’s new eF22
28 cylcinder, turbo/supercharged 71L, making 3000hp in the 40-50’s is pretty crazy
It's actually expected it's airplanes lol not cars
The turbo/supercharged engines made 4300hp my friend. The naturally asperated ones made 3000hp.
And people here are thinking a 1200 horse Lamborghini is the ultimate epitome of engine design.
@@Wildstar40 They didn't make naturall aspirated ones. they had an internal supercharger.
This thing made 3000 HP at 2700 rpm. 3000x5252/2700 means this thing provided about 5800 lb-ft of torque. I want one so bad😮
We had two at the aviation school I attended. It is still a marvel to look over that thing, knowing guys with slide rulers designed it. A true work of art and genius.
It's truly mind blowing.
The SR-71 Blackbird is a marvel that was way ahead of its time also. I'd give up a body part for a ride in that beautiful piece of engineering. 😂
Question of the day will it fit in a miata???
Absolutely.
@@user-cz5kd4xe2u if i could have one of these id put it in a honda s2000 it would be 99% engine 1% honda 😂 just tap the gas in it does like seven 360 degree wheelies
8 of those bad boys powered the H-4 Hercules "spruce goose".
Wow, I never knew that.
If Howard Hughes chose it you KNOW it was good.
That must have sounded amazing.
I did not know that! Thank you for sharing
And it barely flew
@@troyc4841 it was made in 47 so for that time it probably was pretty impressive
That engine startup was like a grandpa coughing his lungs out before showing you something 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That is a hugely identifiable description.
🤣
Gotta love that famous Pratt n Whitney precision. The fact that they were able to make this without computers and using the tools of their time is astonishing
Imagine if you had a cylinder misfire or two, you'd literally never know about it lol
Hand on the exhaust. Briefly. LOL
That's problem even with Bugatti's W16, according to one of their engineers
@@alexreitler the car has a computer that will tell you exactly which piston has issues lol
You're not crapp'n. Sounds like four individual engines on start-up.
First thing i thought and im not even an engineer lmao
This goes straight into my miata!
Looking for this comment or one for a civic😂
Hahaha I’d love to see something like that. It would probably be as big as the car though.
It's an incredible piece of art.
And engineering
" Engineering at it's finest. "
Science, engineering, machining, craftsmanship, art; DaVinci wouldn’t have made the distinction. It was all art.
An absolutely amazing piece of mechanical engineering.
How do people come up with these inventions, ??
Donate one to the Honda community. They'll figure out how to get that bad boy to fit
V-Tec kicked in yo!
7 Marine did the Volvo Penta engine....basically the Prelude engine in a single boat motor.
anything can fit into a honda if your stubborn enough lmao
Imagine donating an aircraft engine lol
😂 yes me i have a garage that could fit the project aswell 😂 well if i showed up with that thing id get all the shop spcae i need just look at it 😂 you could fly the whole.shop with thay engine 😂 well atleast lift it a little😂 well maybe uf you took out all the tractors n foundation then this engine would lift the whole building easy 😂 anyways give to me i will make it fit in as2000 😂😂
I'm surprised no Puerto Rican has put that in a Honda yet
Probably a little stereotypical..
No, actually admirable, Puerto Rican's are weirdly great at that kind of stuff.
@@ZLwh1ne yea and???, stereotypes exist for a reason, they are observed repeating probably noteworthy behaviours.
I am puerto rican and Im also surprised
@@JamBeast508 it is your chance to be a pioneer for your people
now this is the type of hellcat swap I'm looking for
That car will be leaning forwards, you gotta install semi trailer front wheels and suspension to support an engine weighing a ton alone
Love the sound of a radial engine, nothing else sounds like them.
4362.5 cubic inches! The turbocharged variant put out 4300 hp.
It said it was supercharged AND had a turbo brah...4332.686c.i.d. mkay over 3000h.p.
@@Roller-01 They ALL had superchargers, the ones that had the superchargers PLUS the turbos made 4300h.p... Mkay.
Are we straight now brah?
It didn't had these in the 1940s, there's no sound in the video at the end because the person tried to keep the engine like it was
They have a cross-sectioned Wasp Major at the Air and Space Museum by Dulles Airport outside of Washington DC. Seeing this thing in person is incredible. To imagine the engineering it took to design and build this thing in an era without computers. Some of the mechanical engineering in early aviation is borderline magic to me.
They aren't able to recreate some of the early space rockets(hand drawn) with computers either.and we still can't build a pyramid. I believe it's an indication we are in a knowledge decline.
@@ZLwh1ne knowledge decline, all by design.
@@animoetprudentia2865 I mean, we are building reusable rockets and plenty of new technology. I think as a whole we may be declining in intelligence but there are still intelligent people doing brilliant things and creating new technologies.
@@OpticalToxin creative ingenuity is our natural state as humans in my opinion. A 360° spectrum of creative potential. To certain pathological individuals this is/was both an existential threat and a resource to exploit. If you're curious to learn more look into the origins of standardized public education, and the true motives behind it. James Corbett has produced some excellent documentaries about the robber baron era in the US, their influence over education, the birth of modern "medicine", the privatisation of the Fed, the origins of propaganda, the suppression of technological inventions, the seizure of, and suppression of Nikola Tesla's inventions, and so forth.
Elon isn't a genius, he hires geniuses and puts his name on it.
Bill gates paid somebody else $500 to reverse engineer Steve Jobs operating system, which led to his first million dollar contract. The pathological always ride the backs of creative individuals to achieve their ambitions.
Kids today can't read a clock with hands, can't do math without a calculator, can't spell without spell check. Most have zero life skills, which makes them totally dependant on the state, which is by design.
There will always be individually motivated, industrious persons, but they're more the exception now than ever.
The vast majority are dopamine addicted and enamored by smart tech and cyber space. Sheep staring at screens. Instead of being discouraged, it's ENCOURAGED.
All by design.
They have one of them at Hill Aerospace Museum here in Utah as well. I was playing with it last week. It is incredible to see.
The mind that designed and brought the crankshaft into being was genius.
noooooo....the crankshaft looks very similar to a 4 cylinder crank----all 7 cylinders attach to a common piston rod and rotate together
I love being alive today. Just 200 years ago this old engine would’ve been unthinkable.
I feel sorry for those who were born too late to witness 4 of those monsters coughing to life and then accelerating to a thundering takeoff roll. Truly an awesome experience.
Amen!
I bet that was pretty cool
Nah wouldn’t be interested to go to war for old man superiority need
I would have loved to just be a mechanic on it myself, that woulda been awesome👍🏻
Honestly these are old enough to be in video games, not really someone to say too late on
The fact that it's Turbo and supercharged is just outrageous
like some volvos^^
You should go down the Detroit Diesel rabbithole
So were most aero engines
Most aero engines are, don't know enough about planes to tell you why, but I've watched videos and it's relatively common to do both. If I remember right a few used NOS as well.
I imagine the NOS had less to do with power than compensation for thinner air at altitude.
I thought it looked organic at first, it's beautiful.
I now can't stop imaging a plane sounding like an old car, thanks
They ALL did up until jet engines took over.
Well, I’ll be damned, that’s a fire breathing dragon if I’ve ever seen one.
A miracle of engineering. Simply beautiful.
Ain’t nothing simple here ma boy
@@leonardolarocca5569 yep. I know.
not really, in a relative sense. its an upscaled radial which had been around for decades and very common
That is freaking awesome. Imagine putting this on a speed boat lol. Love that sound
I was a mechanic on this engine with the 146th Air Guard at Van Nuys airport CA. The C-97s had four of these beasts. They also had alcohol injection. Changing the oil filters was difficult as one had to crawl backwards into the air scoop and the stand and reach above ghe head. Never done without oil all over the head. Also two spark plugs per cylinder for 56 total.
An old gutsy American masterpiece
How many cylinders do you want?
Yes!
Nobody:
Will it fit in my Honda?
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Am I a joke to you?
Asking for a friend
Everybody gangsta
End this man’s whole career
He protecc, he attacc …
Sexual/genitalia innuendo/big balls
Scatological/flatulence /potty joke
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Plot twist
Left/entered the chat
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Not gonna lie
No one gonna talk about
Last time I was this early
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Legend has it
That’ll buff right out
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It’s complicated
YT algorithm counting down years
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@@onemoremisfit huh?
@@wafikiri_
Nobody:
Him: will it fit in my Honda?🤔
Confused rtrd, u: huh
@@wafikiri_ really? You don't get that he's making fun of all the morons on the comment section parroting unfunny memes?
@@kansangaminggod6341 Confused, but not rtrd. English isn't my first language. That rambling from @onemoremisfit made no sense to me.
I'm better off with scientific publications, they do make sense. Do they to you?
Legend has it that one engine ran for seventeen minutes before needing adjustment that took nine years
It's actually 4 engines bolted together. They did this a lot during WWII with radial engines, ( usually just 2, not 4 because the second bank tended to over heat).
The second bank was fine.... It was when they got to 4 rows that it became a big issue.
Well... it's not exactly 4 engines literally bolted together, but in effect that's about what we're looking at.
Its a money pit.
- Scotty kilmer
😂😂😂
"the kids these days"
So a 1000 years from now people will be looking at these engines and say it would have been impossible for us to have built them w/o computers.... So aliens had to be involved, sort of like the pyramids
Aliens did build the pyramids.
Martian nephelim from Mars.
Revelation 12:7-9.
The destruction of Mars without first evacuating everyone who lived there.
I guess there will be conspiracy theorists then as there are now…
and built with copper hand tools, LOL
No, they'll just look at it in disgust because it isn't made out of plastic like their shitbox subaru... right before they scrap it.
The Spitfire is an aviation masterpiece 💯
This is something straight out of RE:VIllage heisenberg's factory
The headers alone for this looks like an abstract art sculpture. I can’t imagine trying to fab that thing, especially back then.
Building mechanical engines with no help from the computers is a marvel. My hat to these inventors
You have to look at the whole of mankinds history, how we invented and built the machines to further invent and build the machines to further invent and build .... you catch my drift?
Everything we have right now is the product of thousands of years of research and engineering. And we are going even further and faster.
I’ve replayed that startup like 8 times now…it sounds like a goddamn dragon holy shit. Just beautiful.
You know an engine is serious when the exhaust becomes a dragon
I bet that was an absolute nightmare to maintain
Would be awesome to have a fully function, itty-bitty scale model of one of these, just to start it up on my work bench daily, right when boss starts askin’ questions
your a funny man!
See if there’s a 3D modeled version online somewhere, then 3D print it and adjust it to work as an air engine
Use a Photo and MP3 player
Manufacturer: So how many cylinders does this engine have that we're building?
Mad Engineers: YES!!!
All the engines hlbuilt back then with slide rulers was truly ART.Some of those old motors like this one will never be replicated again
That would be perfect for my 93 Buick Roadmaster station wagon. Plus I'll need a bomb sight for my hood ornament.😂
Wowwww, post pics and vids - It’s so rare to come across Buick Roadmasters nowadays let alone the wagon variants
You won’t have a hood to put an ornament on 😂
90s b bodies, one of the best vehicles ever made
I can only imagine being able to taxi and takeoff before declaring a fuel emergency and returning immediately to the airport.
There were 4 on every b-17
@@michaelpieczynski9340 That's complete rubbish. Not even the correct manufacturer. B-17s had single-row, 9 cylinder Wright R-1820 engines.
Sounds like a beast.
Back when people took pride in what they done.
you have heard of SpaceX right?
That test stand had tears running down its face
Amazing that could keep that many moving parts from breaking down
well to be fair you can keep anything from breaking down when you fix it every day
Probably why it had a maintenance schedule of 25 hours.
Imagine if you neededajor replacements for you car's engine after every 25 hours of operation.
@@tylerdurden3722 they ran peacemakers for 20 odd hour intervals. must have sucked for those ground crews having to remove one of these beautys after each flight
Talk about ingenuity at its finest, this was a time when quality really meant something!
That TV show "American Pickers" Mike and Frank go to this couples house to see what they have for sale, the guy has one of these on a Skid and Starts it for them! They were Astonished! Once he turned it off, they were just laughing uncontrollably! When they were finished Mike kept shaking the guys hand and thanking him for Firing it up lol!😄👍
That is awesome how they were able to build this with no computers and no cnc machine
The same way cnc things are designed. Cnc starts as an idea then gets drawn in auto cad or master cam. The only difference is they drew it out on paper. And they more than likely used punch card machines for this to be honest. Basically old school cnc machines. Simply for repeatability for interchangeable parts.
What a beautiful piece of machinery!
Think about it, the SR-71 was built using calculations on slide rules! The engineering and craftsmanship it took to build highly advanced technology was simply amazing!
Pratt&Whitney were mad scientists! They cut cooling fins into every inch of bare metal !
Look at that Mani Fold shooting flames
Mc Love it.
Now THAT is an exhaust note. Awesome.
GET THE MIATA, WERE PUTTING THIS IN
The R-4360 had the interesting characteristic that it could be shut down in working order, but the next time you tried to start it, something would be broken. As Bill Gunston wrote the ultimate generation of big piston engines were a great argument for jets.
That start up and sound clip made me super happy.
71 liters! That's 4300 cubic inches!
What would be the cc? Lol
This got to be the most american comment ever 😂.
@@benzo5799 I can do you one better, thats 45 and a half dr.pepper bottles.
@@Alurtoll thats like 70,500cc
@Scared Of Ghosts for real 💀
I stood in front of one of these engines at a museum in. Oh my heavens this engine is huge. The pistons are massive.
What an absolutely beautiful monster of an engine! And the fact this was built before computers and CNC makes this an extremely impressive work of art and engineering talent!
Imagine trying to diagnose a misfire on that bad boy lol
My father worked on those things, specifically in the F2G2 He told me the trick... Fire it up and run it for 10 seconds... shut it off and find the coolest exaust pipe! I have done the same on a few V8's with headers. works every time!
@@maker-mattclever
Car guys: bro this would totally fit in a miata
"Change those plugs!"
"Kill me now..."
Genius engineering a masterpiece
One of engineering's absolute masterpieces
The B-50 being a modified B-29.
My Dad, an Air Force navigator flew both in Guam in the mid 1950s,tracking typhoons.
*IMAGINE THIS ON A TRUCK* 🍷🗿
most insane reciprocating piston engine, left a few words out of the title...
Geez! What a beast, just hearing it start up would rattle your torso from exhaust pressure
I'm a machinist I build stuff for a living. I can make things out of pretty much any material known to man. And I cannot imagine trying to build this without using a 5-axis CNC equipment or some sort of computer software.
Hats off to the old schools who built things like this because I know how hard it really is
The machining skills required are just phenomenal. Its really a work of art.
A lot of tanks used radial engines. My dad was a tank mechanic, with the 191st Service Company.
Cool story bro, tell it again
that is surprising, I didn`t know that for sure. one would think(?) smaller ship inline or V type designs would be more suited
There’s actually a lycoming 36 cylinder engine but I don’t believe it was mass produced. I’ve seen it in the udvar/hazey aviation museum. Massive piece of equipment
Yes, Lycoming XR-7755.
Came here to mention that engine, also got to see it in person there. Awesome.
A wonderful example of brilliant engine design.
When I pull up to the drag race with my 28 cylinder retro fitted bomber engine sticking out the hood
And you'd still lose, because it weighs SO much, and only revs to about 2600 rpms
Prop planes are the best planes for CAS change my mind, and enemy air doesn't count either because that's not what CAS is supposed to deal with in the first place
That sound is insane!! 😱
What a thing of magnificence!
That sounds amazing! What a piece of engineering.
Wow that thing sounds awesome!
Less efficient than a jet? I didn’t know that was possible.
I am sure that piston engines use less fuel than turbines.
Turbines are lighter and have less parts, that must be what he means by more efficient.
Turbine engines are probably the most efficient combustion engines.
E.g. That engine in the video is less then 20% effiecient (maybe even under 15%). While the Jet engine that replaced it was probably near 60% effiecient (while also being more compact, powerful, simpler and reliable).
Capable of turning a lot of fuel into a lot of work doesn't mean its inefficient.
@@tylerdurden3722 I doubt that this engines even got 6% termal efficiency... they had about 5:1 comp ratio and needed to RUN RICH all the time (it was MARGINALLY better to be run "lean of peak", but MUCH harder on metalurgy thus worse longevity of the engine)
28 cylinders and 70 liters for 3000 gasoline hp? I find jets being more efficient believable
This bad boy's mechanic sure loves this engine
The sound of the last clip was straight from hell..
Nope , the most insane was the Russian m501 or the 36 cylinders lycoming and I also think Napier made a crazy engine too
Well, both of those engines were water cooled and they only built two of the Lycomings. The Wasp Major flew millions of miles in hundreds of airliners.
Look up the napier deltic, also an awesome engine 👍
Yes very cool. Even more interesting that it was descended from a German Junkers design if I remember rightly.
Human engineering is one of the most incredible things about this Universe. Too cool
Gorgeous piece of machinery!!!
And is an absolute work of art! With that being said,what the hell happened?
Jet engines...
The almighty ls1
I love it. What's the firing order on this thing?
It's 4 rows of 7 cylinders. Therefore, the firing order alternating per row is the same as any radial, first all the even numbered (2468) then the odd numbers (13579).
Firing order? Yes
The firing order would be eternal 😂
The mechanic died of stroke trying to figure that out
The SIU A& P program had a static display of one of these radial engins in the late 70's and early 80's. I hope they still have it. What a marvelous piece of enginering avaition history.
Those engines are beasts.
I’m going to go ahead and swap one into a 1999 Honda Civic DX
BRAAAAP
geo metro is a good donor
I think it's was an optional engine for several years
unless the internet lied to me again....