Worked on r4360, r3350, and r1830 engines with air force back in the 60s as recip eng mechanic.. Loved getting my hands dirty with those oil slingers.. Never cared for , "suck n blow engines" (jets)...😍😁
To continue...... a R4360 engine specialist. I did not know that standing 25 feet or so from a engine operating at 60 inches of manifold pressure and max RPM was going to affect my hearing. I understand that any R4360 specialist can apply for a partial disability..... but have never bothered to apply. The vibration was at a sub aural frequency and your chest cavity vibrated in resonance with the engine. I understand some personnel actually lost bladder control and a few supposedly lost control of bowel function due to the pressure and vibration, though I never did know of any one personally who had it happen to them..... though doubt it would be widely publicized. It was a bear to work on... plugs, accessories including alternators, were almost impossible to get to. Oil screen quarenteed you would have to go back to the barracks and shower, as it was at face level in a vertical tunnel that allowed for virtually no motion. One lucky guy got to do all 6 and then take the rest of the day off..... work load permitting. Any aircraft engine that I worked on later in life were pieces of cake compared the B36. I was in my late teens, early twenties and bullet proof. Now at 87 and getting fragile, I doubt I could pick up a single volume of the tech orders, but I do have lots of mostly good memories, and occasionally go visit the B36 at Castle, and have visited the B36 at Wright Patterson, when my professional duties required that I go to WPAFB on business. They should never let a teen age kid get to run an R4360.... it will effect him mentally ifor the rest of his days.. 3500 horsepower at my fingertips.... wow, I never was the same after that. God bless you guys who keep some of them still running. I’d like to hear one again, particularly a B36 with a 19 foot prop.... that was a sound like no other, I have ever heard. But I understand there are no operating B 36 configurations.
Holly crap. These were so bad as times to build engines like these. Inverted ranger eight, to the biggest piston the Pratt and Whitney corn Cobb 28 cylinder monster. I was such a fool in my early 20’s taking a&p mechanic training and my school had all these engines for us to learn and use. All I could think at the time was jet engines were way faster. Man was I a stupid kid. We had the mustang shooting down German jet plans and flying against jet planes in Korea and winning dog fights. No point here other than we made some serious bad ass stuff back then.
Please don't take it badly as we all do stupid mistakes but the in your time the jet engine was was the rage, the must or whatever it is. in truth I always loved piston engines since my first flight on a Lockeed Constellation in 1959 on my visit to Rome with it's magnificent sound. Yep I was a little toddler of 5 years old but I never forgot this light...
If I remember my RCAF training properly, you never, ever stand in line with a propeller just in case of that one-in-a-million chance of something going wrong and the propeller fails., as the gentlemen in the F9F Bearcat segment is doing on startup.
There have been some propellers and pieces of jet engines come thru airplanes and kill folks. Also a friend was killed racing his car engine,a piece of fan came off&went thru his chest,he had small children!. Be careful with engines lot of power!!.
Music to my ears.
Worked on r4360, r3350, and r1830 engines with air force back in the 60s as recip eng mechanic.. Loved getting my hands dirty with those oil slingers.. Never cared for , "suck n blow engines" (jets)...😍😁
Detroit Diesel 12v71: “nothing beat the sound of my buzzin’ dozen!”
Radial 28 cylinder aviation engine: “bitch please”
Do you like these Aircraft Engines ?
Do I “like”them? Hell I still “love” them. Was honored to have spent several years of my youth as a B-36 mechanic
To continue...... a R4360 engine specialist. I did not know that standing 25 feet or so from a engine operating at 60 inches of manifold pressure and max RPM was going to affect my hearing.
I understand that any R4360 specialist can apply for a partial disability..... but have never bothered to apply. The vibration was at a sub aural frequency and your chest cavity vibrated in resonance with the engine. I understand some personnel actually lost bladder control and a few supposedly lost control of bowel function due to the pressure and vibration, though I never did know of any one personally who had it happen to them..... though doubt it would be widely publicized. It was a bear to work on... plugs, accessories including alternators, were almost impossible to get to. Oil screen quarenteed you would have to go back to the barracks and shower, as it was at face level in a vertical tunnel that allowed for virtually no motion. One lucky guy got to do all 6 and then take the rest of the day off..... work load permitting. Any aircraft engine that I worked on later in life were pieces of cake compared the B36. I was in my late teens, early twenties and bullet proof. Now at 87 and getting fragile, I doubt I could pick up a single volume of the tech orders, but I do have lots of mostly good memories, and occasionally go visit the B36 at Castle, and have visited the B36 at Wright Patterson, when my professional duties required that I go to WPAFB on business. They should never let a teen age kid get to run an R4360.... it will effect him mentally ifor the rest of his days.. 3500 horsepower at my fingertips.... wow, I never was the same after that. God bless you guys who keep some of them still running. I’d like to hear one again, particularly a B36 with a 19 foot prop.... that was a sound like no other, I have ever heard. But I understand there are no operating B 36 configurations.
Oh yea
YES
Hell of a sound from wind in the mic as the Spartan is firing up
Nice. Keep up the interest!
Holly crap. These were so bad as times to build engines like these. Inverted ranger eight, to the biggest piston the Pratt and Whitney corn Cobb 28 cylinder monster. I was such a fool in my early 20’s taking a&p mechanic training and my school had all these engines for us to learn and use. All I could think at the time was jet engines were way faster. Man was I a stupid kid. We had the mustang shooting down German jet plans and flying against jet planes in Korea and winning dog fights. No point here other than we made some serious bad ass stuff back then.
Please don't take it badly as we all do stupid mistakes but the in your time the jet engine was was the rage, the must or whatever it is. in truth I always loved piston engines since my first flight on a Lockeed Constellation in 1959 on my visit to Rome with it's magnificent sound. Yep I was a little toddler of 5 years old but I never forgot this light...
If I remember my RCAF training properly, you never, ever stand in line with a propeller just in case of that one-in-a-million chance of something going wrong and the propeller fails., as the gentlemen in the F9F Bearcat segment is doing on startup.
Might throw off a slab of ice from a blade. That could ruin your day.
There have been some propellers and pieces of jet engines come thru airplanes and kill folks.
Also a friend was killed racing his car engine,a piece of fan came off&went thru his chest,he had small children!. Be careful with engines lot of power!!.
*WTF is a 'Cold Straing Up???'*