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Startup at Winterset, Iowa of 12 cylinder Nordberg. Used as emergency power generation. Comments provide additional info.

https://youtu.be/u5p7GIJ9fz0

Can anyone explain why the early models had slots at the aft edge, as well as why they disappeared on later models? Someone asked me in comments on a YouTube video, so I’m asking around. Graham Whit ...

Thanks, Kimble.And when I googled â€œNA-Y6Eâ€, I was lead right back to AEHS! They were big two-barrels.

In the presentations of the 2017 AEHS Convention, are the first pictures of the Allison V-1710 airship application that Iâ€™ve seen. Thanks!
Now, I really wonder which manufacturer supplied the ...

Visible V-8 - an old modeler's staple. Originally tooled by Renwal, Revell-Monogram has the tools now and is still in the re-issue rotation. The also have the tools for the Visible Airplane Engine (R- ...

Thanks! I wondered if the YB-29J featured what, essentially, was the equivalent of the mods that Fifi and Doc have received: swapping the early configured 3350 for a later-configured version.

http://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/r-3350-ca-2/

Are there any pictures of this engine out there? Looking at the way the cowling lines were tightened-up, it looks like this 3350 variant didn't fea ...

I found some interesting scans of Bristol paper engine studies from the 1940s while searching. I haven't heard any discussion of these beside the Orion before; I wonder if the person posting this is a ...

Anderson had a booth way out west, across from the IF1, Biplane and Sport pits. They had a freshly overhauled EA-2 (slated for the Lufthansa Constellation project) and some cutaways on display, along ...

There was some speculation whether Furias experienced an engine failure last year or some problem with the boil-off system caused the oily mess in the hell hole (and everywhere else).

Rare Bear ha ...

A good article about Pete Law is in Air and Space this month. Many here know who he is; those who don't will be glad to be introduced to him here:

http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/How-Reno-R ...

Bob Odegaard is restoring this F2G. It's the one that Walter Soplata had for so many years.

Recent = five months to two years ago.

Click on the link for a first post-overhaul run of an R-436-20 that is apparently destined for the ex-Dick Becker (?) F2G, race 74. The exhaust stacks certain ...

Thanks Bill!

I edited my original post to correct the nomenclature. I should know better Embarassed

I'll have to read the Weertman book, since it's one reference I haven't read. There's probably a ...

For some reason an unofficial 500+ MPH speed achievement is associated with various experimental variants of the P-47: the R-2800-powered XP-47J; the Chrysler-powered XP-47H and the R-4360-powered XP- ...