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The largest and most powerful piston aircraft engine ever built

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mike b11 days ago

There was another, the Lycoming R-7755

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Bob10 days ago

What the world needs, it doesn't know it yet, is for Bob Lazar to strap that into a 1991 Honda CRX.

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Dearth Dealer10 days ago

Before anyone claims there is some exotic reason for the helical arrangment, it's done that way for packaging. You can get more cylinders in the same space if you slightly twist each layer in relation to the layer in front of it. There might be advantages in airflow with the helical design but that's not why they did it. It's just to make it shorter. This was designed originally for the B-50. For those not familiar, a B-50 is just a beefed up B-29 designed to carry a fat man nuclear payload for Strategic Air Command.

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Jon B10 days ago

Can you cut and switch the clips even faster so that it's even more a blur?

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Kyle the Quokka11 days ago

Crazy how far we have come when it comes to aviation

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Ying Ko11 days ago

I have a few NIB valve covers for one of those.

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