Pratt & Whitney 28 cylinder aircraft engine.

So how long would it take to do a tune up to the Spruce Goose? Let's see, 8 engines, 28 cylinders each, 2 plugs per cylinder, that's 448 spark plugs, at approx $35 each. That's $15,000 bucks worth of spark plugs alone. Ouch.

-Mark.

asysin2leads wrote in post #10348951
I've got one of those in my minivan.

Minivan?? You should watch me mow my lawn some day!

475 1st place trophies in the neighborhood lawn mower races!

Nice work, I love the old Wright engines. They really are nearly bullet proof. I got to see one being preserved at the Garber Facility, and then another for a cutaway very very cool.

SUCK-SQUEEZE-BANG-BLOW!!

LBaldwin wrote in post #10352889
Nice work, I love the old Wright engines. They really are nearly bullet proof. I got to see one being preserved at the Garber Facility, and then another for a cutaway very very cool.

SUCK-SQUEEZE-BANG-BLOW!!

Wrights do sound great, but the 4360 is a Pratt

I've seen the cutaway versions at the Pima Air & Space museum in Tucson, AZ and the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino Hills, CA.

The engineering that went into those engines is just AMAZING ! Largely done with sliderules, pencils & T-squares (showing my age here) I can't even imaging the machining that went into making those beauties either ! A real testament to the brainpower that preceded the last few generations !

Mike

ryanapem wrote in post #10359000
Wrights do sound great, but the 4360 is a Pratt

Oh I agree, the Wright that I saw being restored was a R-1820-34A 1200 HP! It had been crated in 1962 after it's #2 jug was cracked and never opened again until NASM got it.

Of course they have several in various stages of undress at Garber, radials from France, Germany, and a few from Russia too. Even though P&W made a crap load of varients my favs are the Wrights.

It was always Cyclone this and Wasp that... They went head to head for years and both won lots of races, were put into very interesting A/C and even better are still breathing fire today. Both companies put them into cars, trains and even a boat or two. Helicopters that need torque, can get it on the cheap with a radial.

I would love to see someone use a small one as a gas/electric hybrid for cars. No coolant required so space and weight savings are possible. And it would sound cool as hell!!

I love to shoot engine data plates so I get as many varients as I can (of all makes).

I bet cleaning the spark plugs takes a while

Nice shot. thanks for sharing.

LBaldwin wrote in post #10360953
Oh I agree, the Wright that I saw being restored was a R-1820-34A 1200 HP! It had been crated in 1962 after it's #2 jug was cracked and never opened again until NASM got it.

Of course they have several in various stages of undress at Garber, radials from France, Germany, and a few from Russia too. Even though P&W made a crap load of varients my favs are the Wrights.

It was always Cyclone this and Wasp that... They went head to head for years and both won lots of races, were put into very interesting A/C and even better are still breathing fire today. Both companies put them into cars, trains and even a boat or two. Helicopters that need torque, can get it on the cheap with a radial.

I would love to see someone use a small one as a gas/electric hybrid for cars. No coolant required so space and weight savings are possible. And it would sound cool as hell!!

I love to shoot engine data plates so I get as many varients as I can (of all makes).

Ahhh, sorry 'bout that. Didn't quite follow with the subject/engine manufacturer change. I'm with you, Pratts are reliable and bullet-proof like no other, but for sounds and effects a Wright will always win! 985 vs 975, 1820 vs 1830, 2600 vs 2800, 4360 vs 3350 the Wrights all sound better!

That is massive!

ryanapem wrote in post #10361676
Ahhh, sorry 'bout that. Didn't quite follow with the subject/engine manufacturer change. I'm with you, Pratts are reliable and bullet-proof like no other, but for sounds and effects a Wright will always win! 985 vs 975, 1820 vs 1830, 2600 vs 2800, 4360 vs 3350 the Wrights all sound better!

Down with ear plugs!!

WHAT

LOL

Great shot - very interesting engine! Thanks for sharing

Awesome! Is this the one I saw at the Travis AFB museum?

Yup, sure is.

Itsed65 wrote in post #10351123
Thanks for all the comments guys. Those are the only images I have of that particular engine, but they came out so well and it is so interesting, that I am for sure going to get some more the next time I am up at Travis. The C-124 also had service tunnels in the wings to add oil in flight. When I was a young loadmaster some of the old head flight engineers told stories of having to crawl into the wings halfway between Hawaii and California to fill em with oil so they didnt run dry!

I am not sure what type of plane this particular model came from but I can sure ask the next time I am up there. I go about once a month. Having the 5Dm2 is great for inside no flash shots in a badly lit museum. I would hesitate to use 1600 ISO on my 40D and not even think of 3200, but not anymore!

My Dad was a Loadmaster on the old 124's. He told me a story one day while we were at the Air Force Museum about one of the guys on board crawled out into the tunnel and lifted the door and hung halfway out trying to get one of the nurses on board to go take care of him. Apparently they were transporting a plane full of nurses somewhere. Dad started out in the Berlin Airlift and was the second Loadmaster to make CMSgt in the USAF. He designed a lot of equipment used in todays Air Force that a lot of people take for granted. The wratcheting tie down strap, load pallets, the truck that lifts the pallets into the aircraft. He was the FIRST Loadmaster to ever put a load on a C-130. He actually broke the plane's floor, arguing with the design engineer about it taking the load. Lots of undocumented storys he has told us, and we never could get him to write anything down, or record it. he's still with us, but the memory is fading fast....

I've got one I'm about to drop into a Civic.