You want HP? How about a 5000 HP Radial.

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Wooeee! The TQ on a SE with that mounted, if it could even carry it. Gee Bee?
 
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Lol! First plane I thought about when reading the title was the B-36. Just watched Strategic Air Command last night. :)
 
Velocity173 said:
Lol! First plane I thought about when reading the title was the B-36. Just watched Strategic Air Command last night. :)
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LOL thought you were gonna write you flew that too. ;)
 
Velocity173 said:
I wish. Flying for SAC in tgrowing up.he 50's would have been awesome.
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Yup it was all about SAC for a long time. B-58 Hustler would have been fun to check out in. My dad was stationed at McDill in the mid 50s when the B-47s were based there. Probably the first USAF plane, let alone jet, I saw that began my interest in flying. Or really noticed probably more correct.
 
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MD11Pilot said:
Mount that thing on just about about anything and you have a dynasty at Reno.
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Due to all the P-Factor, you'd probably only want a left wing. Like an old Control Line speed racer!
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Image from: http://www.hooked-on-rc-airplanes.com/control-line-airplanes.html
 
When one minute of that engine running equals 1 hour of fuel consumption in your normal 180hp plane (9.6gph) :eek:
 
I would not want to be the one to tell the mechanic that he has to pull and clean the plugs.....
 
X3 Skier said:
http://www.tested.com/tech/564279-story-aviations-largest-piston-engine/

7755 Cu In, 5000 HP, 580 Gal/Hr, Liquid Cooled. Only two ever built.

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Do you know why? 3350-? per airline figures, 140 man hours maintenance per light hour. and then jets.150 flight hours to 1 man hour maintenance..

bye bye pistons

The piston engine became so heavy, so large. it required a B-36 to carry them.
realize that a 4360 measured from fire wall to prop shaft was 8 feet. weighed in excess of 4k
Then the T-56-14 A 6000 horse power weighed less than 2k, came out on the lockhead electra.
Now the AE 2100-? 14,000 horse power on the C-130-E
bye bye the piston engine.
They make a sweet noise, but no sense in commercial aircraft.
 
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Gives you a good idea on how large the B-36 is, if you have never seen one for real. Had to jack the nose up more than 10 feet to make a line move. All line moves were done on 3rd shift due to the logistics required.
The building looks pretty much the same these days, other than having F-35 stuff there. When I first worked in that building, we had some F-111's being completed after upgrades. Spend many a day in there.
 
Zeldman said:
I would not want to be the one to tell the mechanic that he has to pull and clean the plugs.....
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I'd love it, that's 40 man hours billed at 50 per =$2000

A 3350 Wright has 144 plugs, REM 40-E at $30 = $4320.00 marked up at 20% Yep, call me :) Have tool box, will travel.
 
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