Old airplanes with big piston engines

[Bob Core]

Click on any of these and it will become obvious why. All of these are powereed by a Pratt & Whitney R-2800, an 18-cylinder radial of 2800 cubic inches. Each cylinder is 155 cubic inches or, in other words, roughly half the displacement of a Chevy 305.


FG1D Corsair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsCydVwiupU

Takes a while for the pilot to get the mixture set right, after which a few long licks of flame shoot out.

F4U-5 Corsair (some exhaust outlets located above the wing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VmxkpgiURA

Grumman F8F Bearcat (from the front up close, you can hear the prop reduction gearing whine, typical of the newer R-2800s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XXQoc4JvqQ

Incidentally, the I.D. plate on that one probably says "Manufactured by Chevrolet" on it somewhere, since P&W contracted them to make that particular variant of the R-2800 while they were busy making jet engines.

[rstreet]

great find Bob....Cecil's response will be priceless when he sees these...He'll probably be in the air tonight!:cheers
Robert

[oldskydog]

Thanks for posting that Bob. There's nothing like the sound of a radial engine . If you close your eyes it sounds a lot like a solid lifter 409 running through open exhaust.

Here's a link to my engine sound (R-1820).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXomNl5X2jg&mode=related&search=

And T-28 flyby. Too bad it's in Air Farce markings instead of Navy but it's still pretty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csGWzBQDHfU&mode=related&search=

I got to hear that noise yesterday. I spent the day working on an Albatross that flew around the world in 2001 on a London to Sydney race. Had to change #7 cylinder. I has the same engines as my T-28.
Here's a link to the website for the airplane and the race info.

www.campbellairrace.com

:cool: :bow :cheers