The Ford Trimotor was the first popular civil design to use then-new radial engines. The propeller of an R-2800 Double Wasp-powered P-47 is pulled through before a mission over Europe. A Wasp ...

The largest radial engine ever to enter service, the Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major R-4360-59B, had four rows of seven cylinders. This allowed the engine to produce 4,300 hp, but it also meant that ...

Some of the advantages of radial air-cooled aeronautic engines are given ... The supercharger drive and the recently developed propeller reduction-gears of the Wasp engine are described, and the paper ...

Equipped with a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engine, the P-47 had 2,000 horsepower, top speeds of 426 mph, and a turbocharger for high-altitude flying. The Grumman F6F Hellcat could ...

Frederick Rentschler would shape the history of aviation when he established the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company and began working on the Wasp engine. His idea for a radial engine would be much ...

[Ian Jimmerson] has constructed a detailed model of a radial engine out of wood and MDF for an undisclosed reason. Rather than just delivering the wooden engine to wherever wood engines go ...

Radial engines require different treatment before ... There are compensations: Lou Churchville caught the Wasp bug while he was flying cropdusters as a contract pilot over the cotton fields ...