The engine belongs to the EAA in Oshkosh Wisconsin, I was just a bystander watching the demonstration. The engine belongs to a spitfire that they have in their museum! It’s a late 1930s Allison V-1710 v12 engine producing about 1000 horsepower. I’m not sure if they will put a propeller on it but it sure would be cool if they did!
@@patrickshaw8595 It’s off of a homebuilt replica Spitfire that had this Allison in place of the RR Merlin… the EAA team decided to get it running on a stand for demonstrations like you see here!
@@ryanelliott5616is this not planned to run in an airplane ever? I’m guessing the spitfire is 3/4 scale as this engine is under powered for a spitfire at 1:1 the Merlin made 1300hp
@@auclairaviation As far as I know, it’s not planned to be used in an airplane, just demo runs to give people an idea of the power and sensory experience of these special old warbird engines. Who knows what the future may hold though!
Say what you will, but understand this. The Flying Tigers had an Allison engine in their P40 Warbirds. The number of Japanese planes shot down by the Flying Tigers was amazing. The pilots got $500 for each downed plane. How do I know, my Dad was with the Flying Tigers.
The thing that many don’t realize about engines like these; they were entirely hand drawn. Men and women with pencils, slide rules, and chalkboards. Then the plans were copied, by hand, for distribution. It’s absolutely amazing to me.
I grew up in Satellite Beach in the '70s and '80s... Wish there had still been hydroplane racing then. Spent a lot of happy time on the Indian River, in my dad's boat, in optimist prams, and on a sailboard.
miss the days when these and rolls royce engines powered Unlimited Hydro race boats before turbines. the sound was incredible! 5or6 of these boats screaming across the water at 150mph+ is incredible engines at full revs! never forget that sound!👍
@stevenphilpott1493 Same here. I love the sound they made. I miss the Griffin power the Miss Budweiser used. I started going to the Tri City Washington race and got the last person to get Dean autograph before he jump into the Miss Budweiser in 1982.
Considering the era where this engine was first used, I’m quite impressed with the engineering. Slide rules and painstakingly drawn parts. No CNC and even welding was still a fairly new process.
.....and it was only 35 years after the Wright Brothers accomplished the first powered flight. This engine was an engineering masterpiece in it's day and still is to this day.
I had two Allison 1710 cu. In. Engines, back in the mid 70's One was right handed rotation, the other left. One was from a P-39, and didn't have the reduction gear on the engine. The other was probably from a P-38 twin engine fighter, because it was the opposite rotation engine. I would start the P-39 engine in my shop about once a month, "just to keep the fluids fresh". It was the hit of all the shops around, and would shut them all down until I put the engine to bed. Great fun, and a memorable experience.
@@YaFatima-x9rsadly, I no longer have them. I wish I did. It was 50 years ago, and a lot of life has happened since. They are very impressive, considering the technology of the time. Roller rockers, sodium filled valves, 48-valve engine, and much more. The British Rolls Royce 1650 cu. in. Counterpart was just as good, but had a 2 stage blower which gave it more power and higher altitude capability.
@DoctoreE644 I've heard that many of the Merlins still around are running Alison rods. Apparently Allison engines had some pieces that were better engineered. Unfortunately they made the supercharger too small--that was why they were unable to keep up with other single- stage, single- speed supercharged aircraft at the beginning of the war. And then I think Allison just didn't have the cash to develop better compressor technology, and was largely left behind. Obviously turbochargers worked with it, but WWII turbochargers were huge things and only fit in multi- engine planes or big fat fuckers like the P 47.
took the U.S so long to catch up to the tech at the time an if the brits never gave them the merlin would still be flying radials but you got there in the end an you made em work well
People can look at it and listen to it ... but they have absolutely no concept of the time, energy, engineering and money that goes into a project like this. The dedication and family sacrifice to produce this functioning engine is remarkable. Thank GOD there are people willing to share segments of the past with our future generations. It would be indeed wonderful if any of them would make the effort to express their gratitude.
@@brucebaxter6923 At low altitude the Allison was a great motor. Even after the war it was used extensively in hydroplane racing. The Rolls-Griffon made it obsolete due to its high altitude performance and the role of the US Fighters was primarily bomber escort at 30,000 feet.
Growing up there was a farmer that used one for an irrigation motor. Ran 6 sprinkler systems from one well. My grandfather ran 4 from 3 wells just down the road. Lots of power and running on natural gas.
i lived for a while over the departure path from the Guatemala International Airport. The Air Force many years ago (late 60s to early 70s) flew surplus P-51s. I would get to hear them taking off in full song on a regular basis. It was heavenly. This brings back pleasant memories.
In the Air Force, mid 70s, Recip Engine Mechanic. Keflavik, Iceland, 20 yrs old and engine run qualified. When I got to start and run those 3350s on the Connies, WOW...amazing!!
Very cool. Around 1974 The Walther Racing Team outside of Dayton had literally, stacks of engines behind their shop that had been guillotined from just aft of the firewall. All to be used in unlimited class racing boats.
Now, imagine mounting a 4 blade, 9’ dia prop on the front, mounting all that to an aluminium Coke can, sit in it with just your head poking out, slap on a set of wings then power up and GO LIKE HELL!!!😍
Yep, my Dad survived 50 missions in the P-38 out of Foggia Italy. Got the Distinguished Flying Cross for dropping supplies to American spies in the Ardenne forrest. Said that P-38 was a bad ass machine.
@@yourgoldenretriever Yes, big superchargers visible on the P-38 right where the wing meets each fuselage. Somewhere out here, there's and old vid from the 40's about special characteristics of the plane. I showed my Dad that vid and he loved it. It talked about holding the brakes on takeoff and getting the superchargers up to a certain RPM. Dad kind of joked that was all BS! You just got to know the feel of the plane and the motors and you KNEW when to let go of the brakes. Later, they show how to shut off one engine and fly that way. Dad was like.....that's nothing. I lost an engine over the alps and flew back to Italy that way. Joked he could probably still fly that plane with an hours instruction, it was so simple and solid. One downfall, it couldn't fly inverted for more that a few seconds, didn't have the right oil pump system.
This would be me.... I'm a professional who now volunteers my time at a museum. I have started this engine 1k times with zero issues.... but since there is an audience today, I think that I should probably just disregard the checklist and wing it. We will then show our troubleshooting skills under pressure. Been there, done that. 😉
Do you plan to put a cropped propeller on it? These big engines really need something to drive, they run much better with a load on the crankshaft. It sounds lovely though.
I grew up around race cars, NASCAR is in my family's blood, all the way back to Prohibition Old airplane engines are close to my heart Listen to that big baby purr
You would think after making 55,000 of them that this would be just like clock work. Ask any Pratt and Whitney Mechanic about the R2800 and you will get the same answer. They wake up when they want to and hopefully don't light on fire in mid air.
My high school in 1968 Estancia High school in Costa Mesa ,California had an Allison engine on a stand. This engine was in the "Power Mechanics" class. Power mechanics was a more advanced "auto shop". We would fire it up a couple times a year, and the whole school would come out to watch! We also has a 4 cyl boxer 2 cycle drone engine with a propeller attached. No guard around prop. Nowadays that would never be possible. Only way to start ,was to hand crank with prop.
As someone dealing in racecar engines these sound so tame. They are not designed to turn high rpm or have much static compression so are tame. But do a very good job in a aeroplane when using 20-30 lbs of boost at higher altitudes. It does sound a touch sharper though than Meteor tank engines with no superchargers that I have heard in tanks recently. But it has no fan!!
Kermit Weeks bought many of those engines to keep them from blowing up in drag pull tractors and being destroyed. Worth mentioning. And if you don't know, You Tube Kermit Weeks. Legend. Living Legend.
Allison engines are so cool. My first exposure to those engines was at the tractor pulls back in the 80s. I would think it would need a much bigger battery, those wires must get hot. Thank you.
HaHa, I literally just said jokingly, "Must've forgot to turn the fuel On ?" n the guy say's it after. 👍🏻😆🤣 Appreciate the upload since it's Beautiful music to my eardrums n a sight to behold with these Beast engines, Thank you Brianna 👍🏻😎👍🏻
When I was in A&P school, we had an Allison out of a P-40 on a test stand. It was so cool starting and running that thing. But we dared not take it much past idle. It would torque roll right off the stand if we gave it the beans.
From the Wright Brothers 2 cylinder motor, to this in less than 40 years, but it was not just the engine. It was metallurgy, machining and machine tools, lubricating oils, high octane fuels, and thousands and thousands who developed the skill sets needed to create these mechanical works of art, none of which existed or only existed in rudimentary form or just thoughts in someones head. People say computers made quantum leaps in technology, but that pales in comparison to all the elements that had to come together to create these engines and the planes they went in. Now, picture this engine in a shot up aircraft approaching the ground at a steep angle, traveling at several hundred miles an hour, and it instantly being turned into pieces of scrap, and maybe a disabled 21 year old pilot who could not bail out, who a couple years earlier was in school and maybe driving a tractor working on his daddy's farm, becoming one with that scrap. That is the real price of war.
There was an old airfield in Texas in the 1960 s that must have had 10 or 20 sitting in a piece of land , just outside. I remember thinking what kind of engine,s are those?? Later when I saw one in a race boat I knew. They were junked...such a shame.
Late 60's early 70's our shop teacher at Estancia High in Costa Mesa Ca had a setup just like that, when he fired that monster up you could feel as well as hear it a mile away...
Pretty engine! Guess it's a similar unit as powered the mighty WW2 era American Kittyhawk. Flown by a couple of Australian squadrons in the Battle of Milne Bay and the defense of Port Moresby. Australia owes a lot to that aeroplane, the people that designed and built it, the industrial power that churned them out and the government that allowed Australia to use them. Thankyou USA.
Hadn't thought of that but registers true. Many of those ww2 aero engines had an oil pressure priming system they'd start with pressure oil already pumped up. IIRC, the Merlin had that and the big radials as well.
Not so fast, aircraft engines do not start like car engines. You crank them for a while to build engine oil pressure and distribute and equalize the fuel prime before energizing the ingition . . . . .
I haven't seen that many pipes in one place since Woodstock™ What a beast! (Ironically that's the same thing my urologist told me) As ICE (ultimately) goes away - Some day... Humans will lament the loss of their thunderous fire machines that grabbed.. no, "assaulted us" in the pit of our stomachs I miss you already. Just saying
Their V12's with 4 valves per cyl. 2 exhaust ports per cyl. & 2 intake! Thus 2 exhaust stacks per cyl! the sound they make at full tilt is amazing coming from an unlimited hydro going 150+ mph on water!😊
Okay, but I'm not an Allison expert so: Whats the displacement? How many cylinders? Whats the configuration? Whats the BHP at the flywheel? What plane did this lump go into? You know, some information would be useful with a video like this! Thank You in advance.
12 cylinder not real sure on the displacement.. 1710. I think. Was used in the P40,P39,P63,P38 (which was a twin engine airplane), and some of the first P 51s
New to you engine? Tell us a little about it please. Wish you'd done that in your description.
Looks and sounds great btw.
The engine belongs to the EAA in Oshkosh Wisconsin, I was just a bystander watching the demonstration. The engine belongs to a spitfire that they have in their museum! It’s a late 1930s Allison V-1710 v12 engine producing about 1000 horsepower. I’m not sure if they will put a propeller on it but it sure would be cool if they did!
@@briannalarouche No spitfires ever had Allison engines, lol. Lots of other planes did - just not them.
@@patrickshaw8595 It’s off of a homebuilt replica Spitfire that had this Allison in place of the RR Merlin… the EAA team decided to get it running on a stand for demonstrations like you see here!
@@ryanelliott5616is this not planned to run in an airplane ever? I’m guessing the spitfire is 3/4 scale as this engine is under powered for a spitfire at 1:1 the Merlin made 1300hp
@@auclairaviation As far as I know, it’s not planned to be used in an airplane, just demo runs to give people an idea of the power and sensory experience of these special old warbird engines. Who knows what the future may hold though!
Say what you will, but understand this. The Flying Tigers had an Allison engine in their P40 Warbirds. The number of Japanese planes shot down by the Flying Tigers was amazing. The pilots got $500 for each downed plane. How do I know, my Dad was with the Flying Tigers.
Fork Tailed Devil had twin Allison's!!👍👍
AVG or 14th Air force?
God bless your father....I thank him for his service
Not too many people know of or even mention the flying tigers. My grandpa was as well. His name was Bud. On this platform I’ll leave it there.
Your dad flew with chenault and pappy boyington , !! THAT'S way cool
The thing that many don’t realize about engines like these; they were entirely hand drawn. Men and women with pencils, slide rules, and chalkboards. Then the plans were copied, by hand, for distribution. It’s absolutely amazing to me.
The first 747 was all done by slide rule.
@@stevewallace1117 SR-71/A-12 anybody? 🧐🤨
@@mrgone658 i can name an airplane
Cigarettes and martinis too! 😉
The originals were copied to blue prints. The blue print method was developed in 1842.
I retired from Allison’s. I worked in the building where these engines were produced. It’s still being used to build transmissions. Speedway, Indiana.
America
I'm from Lebanon. My family is from Crawfordsville and Shannondale is named after my family... Are we related ??? LOL
Back in the sixties I used to see and hear those engines in hydroplane boats racing on the Indian River in Cocoa Florida.
My Dad was on the pit crew of the Miss Fascination U-88 in the 60s.... He said the Allison engine was the very best....
They are also used for modified tractor pulling!!!!!!
@jasonprice9341 yes they were!!!
I grew up going to Miami marine stadium once a year the unlimited hydros came and the sound was awesome
I grew up in Satellite Beach in the '70s and '80s... Wish there had still been hydroplane racing then. Spent a lot of happy time on the Indian River, in my dad's boat, in optimist prams, and on a sailboard.
miss the days when these and rolls royce engines powered Unlimited Hydro race boats before turbines. the sound was incredible! 5or6 of these boats screaming across the water at 150mph+ is incredible engines at full revs! never forget that sound!👍
Yep....jets are wonderful, but they ruined hydroplane racing IMO.
@stevenphilpott1493 Same here. I love the sound they made. I miss the Griffin power the Miss Budweiser used. I started going to the Tri City Washington race and got the last person to get Dean autograph before he jump into the Miss Budweiser in 1982.
Considering the era where this engine was first used, I’m quite impressed with the engineering. Slide rules and painstakingly drawn parts. No CNC and even welding was still a fairly new process.
.....and it was only 35 years after the Wright Brothers accomplished the first powered flight. This engine was an engineering masterpiece in it's day and still is to this day.
Never forget that after the drawings came the craftsman fitters who relied on their hand skills!
@steves5172 did the power always exist? I can't tell bother video, but the john torque was always on top of this one. Truly appreciate this tie up!
I had two Allison 1710 cu. In. Engines, back in the mid 70's
One was right handed rotation, the other left. One was from a P-39, and didn't have the reduction gear on the engine. The other was probably from a P-38 twin engine fighter, because it was the opposite rotation engine. I would start the P-39 engine in my shop about once a month, "just to keep the fluids fresh". It was the hit of all the shops around, and would shut them all down until I put the engine to bed. Great fun, and a memorable experience.
Do you currently have the engines? It would be great if you could make a video and share these old monsters are amazing...
@@YaFatima-x9rsadly, I no longer have them. I wish I did. It was 50 years ago, and a lot of life has happened since. They are very impressive, considering the technology of the time. Roller rockers, sodium filled valves, 48-valve engine, and much more. The British Rolls Royce 1650 cu. in. Counterpart was just as good, but had a 2 stage blower which gave it more power and higher altitude capability.
@DoctoreE644 I've heard that many of the Merlins still around are running Alison rods. Apparently Allison engines had some pieces that were better engineered. Unfortunately they made the supercharger too small--that was why they were unable to keep up with other single- stage, single- speed supercharged aircraft at the beginning of the war. And then I think Allison just didn't have the cash to develop better compressor technology, and was largely left behind. Obviously turbochargers worked with it, but WWII turbochargers were huge things and only fit in multi- engine planes or big fat fuckers like the P 47.
took the U.S so long to catch up to the tech at the time an if the brits never gave them the merlin would still be flying radials but you got there in the end an you made em work well
People can look at it and listen to it ... but they have absolutely no concept of the time, energy, engineering and money that goes into a project like this. The dedication and family sacrifice to produce this functioning engine is remarkable. Thank GOD there are people willing to share segments of the past with our future generations. It would be indeed wonderful if any of them would make the effort to express their gratitude.
Shame really when the Brit’s made it obsolete and they just made Brit motors after that
Pretty snarky. You’re not the only one who gets it.
@@ralphaverill2001 Just the only one recognizing it. Snarky ... A new language for a people who have recently woken up.
@@brucebaxter6923 At low altitude the Allison was a great motor. Even after the war it was used extensively in hydroplane racing. The Rolls-Griffon made it obsolete due to its high altitude performance and the role of the US Fighters was primarily bomber escort at 30,000 feet.
@@richardgreen7811
So just don’t go up?
Great aircraft engine.
Growing up there was a farmer that used one for an irrigation motor. Ran 6 sprinkler systems from one well. My grandfather ran 4 from 3 wells just down the road. Lots of power and running on natural gas.
i lived for a while over the departure path from the Guatemala International Airport. The Air Force many years ago (late 60s to early 70s) flew surplus P-51s. I would get to hear them taking off in full song on a regular basis. It was heavenly. This brings back pleasant memories.
In the Air Force, mid 70s, Recip Engine Mechanic. Keflavik, Iceland, 20 yrs old and engine run qualified. When I got to start and run those 3350s on the Connies, WOW...amazing!!
EC 97s
Is that a 12 cylinder in line Allison engine, sir?
Is that a 12 cylinder in line Allison engine, sir?
@@FrankGUILLORY-xv6zl Allison V-1710, a V-12, two banks of six. Ya see 12 pipes per side because each cylinder had 2 exhaust valves.
A thing of beauty !!
Reckon it helps to switch on the mags. Very cool piece of engineering!
Most likely they were making sure there was oil pressure before letting it start. Heck of a machine.
Panders. absolutely right.
Very cool. Around 1974 The Walther Racing Team outside of Dayton had literally, stacks of engines behind their shop that had been guillotined from just aft of the firewall. All to be used in unlimited class racing boats.
I remember that to as a miamisburg/ west Carrollton resident, right up from woodys
that didn't sound like hair dryers
I remember back in the 1960s there was a lot of the modified tractors running them big Allison aircraft engines! Loved the sound of them!
Now, imagine mounting a 4 blade, 9’ dia prop on the front, mounting all that to an aluminium Coke can, sit in it with just your head poking out, slap on a set of wings then power up and GO LIKE HELL!!!😍
Couple four 100mm turbos and the can become lighter
P-38 lightning had two turbocharged 1450Hp Allison engines pilots said they were like a flying Cadillac.
Were they 24 cylinder engines like this one?
@@stevenleek1254 It's a V-12 with two exhaust valves, thus two stacks per cylinder.
Yep, my Dad survived 50 missions in the P-38 out of Foggia Italy. Got the Distinguished Flying Cross for dropping supplies to American spies in the Ardenne forrest. Said that P-38 was a bad ass machine.
Pretty sure they were supercharged
@@yourgoldenretriever Yes, big superchargers visible on the P-38 right where the wing meets each fuselage. Somewhere out here, there's and old vid from the 40's about special characteristics of the plane. I showed my Dad that vid and he loved it. It talked about holding the brakes on takeoff and getting the superchargers up to a certain RPM. Dad kind of joked that was all BS! You just got to know the feel of the plane and the motors and you KNEW when to let go of the brakes. Later, they show how to shut off one engine and fly that way. Dad was like.....that's nothing. I lost an engine over the alps and flew back to Italy that way. Joked he could probably still fly that plane with an hours instruction, it was so simple and solid. One downfall, it couldn't fly inverted for more that a few seconds, didn't have the right oil pump system.
Fantastic stuff can't get enough of these aero engines
This would be me.... I'm a professional who now volunteers my time at a museum. I have started this engine 1k times with zero issues.... but since there is an audience today, I think that I should probably just disregard the checklist and wing it. We will then show our troubleshooting skills under pressure. Been there, done that. 😉
Do you plan to put a cropped propeller on it? These big engines really need something to drive, they run much better with a load on the crankshaft. It sounds lovely though.
It’s spitting raw fuel out of the exhaust, I hope they pre-oiled it!
Love the Allison engines. My dad was an Allison mechanic, and I have his Allison service manuals. 🙂
Thanks for posting this, Brianna!! Awesome sounds!
Absolutely beautiful, sounding motor!!!
Its running very smooth, well done for rescuing and preserving it
Bud and Chuck would have that baby humming by now...
Nice. It needs a trailer, full size prop with a cage around it. Then you can rev it up and spectators will feel the wind and power of it.
A super touch would be to have at least two P-40 main wheels for the show trailer.
Sounds Safe Enough 👌
Used to see a lot of those at the tractor pulls back in the day. They definitely have a unique sound
Yes, many of them around in the 70's. Lot of RR Merlins too. Shake the entire arena at indoor pulls in the winter.
That sounds so smooth
Used to see and hear them all the time back in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s in unlimited hydroplanes on Lake Washington in Seattle. Rolls Merlin engines too
Extremely interesting and nice to see. Here in the United Kingdom there are quite a few people with Rolls Royce Merlins on trailers like this.
The sound! Oh the sound of those V-12s!!
Love those engines!
I grew up around race cars, NASCAR is in my family's blood, all the way back to Prohibition
Old airplane engines are close to my heart
Listen to that big baby purr
You would think after making 55,000 of them that this would be just like clock work. Ask any Pratt and Whitney Mechanic about the R2800 and you will get the same answer. They wake up when they want to and hopefully don't light on fire in mid air.
THAT ENGINE WAS USED IN WW-II AIRCRAFT BOMBERS, AND FIGHTERS.
IT'S A BEAST IN IT'S
OWN SELF
Stop yelling dum bass
This is one of those engines you can feel how powerful it is by the exhaust thumping you in the chest.
My high school in 1968 Estancia High school in Costa Mesa ,California had an Allison engine on a stand. This engine was in the "Power Mechanics" class. Power mechanics was a more advanced "auto shop". We would fire it up a couple times a year, and the whole school would come out to watch! We also has a 4 cyl boxer 2 cycle drone engine with a propeller attached. No guard around prop. Nowadays that would never be possible. Only way to start ,was to hand crank with prop.
I love the sound of these engines running, especially in speed boats.
Absolute work of art !
A engine that is favourite of tractor puller's, as I witnessed at Great eccelston,nice to hear the sound again.
😃😄
As someone dealing in racecar engines these sound so tame. They are not designed to turn high rpm or have much static compression so are tame. But do a very good job in a aeroplane when using 20-30 lbs of boost at higher altitudes.
It does sound a touch sharper though than Meteor tank engines with no superchargers that I have heard in tanks recently.
But it has no fan!!
Kermit Weeks bought many of those engines to keep them from blowing up in drag pull tractors and being destroyed. Worth mentioning. And if you don't know, You Tube Kermit Weeks. Legend. Living Legend.
An aeroplane for each day of the year...
Allison engines are so cool. My first exposure to those engines was at the tractor pulls back in the 80s.
I would think it would need a much bigger battery, those wires must get hot.
Thank you.
I would like to know what happened to all the Griffin power that they used in the Miss Budweiser.
What a thing of beauty!!! Great job to all involved in getting this baby up and running!
Cheers
Mike
And back in the day they didn’t have computers, those guy really knew how to make these babies run!
Pretty cool here though.
HaHa,
I literally just said jokingly, "Must've forgot to turn the fuel On ?" n the guy say's it after. 👍🏻😆🤣
Appreciate the upload since it's Beautiful music to my eardrums n a sight to behold with these Beast engines, Thank you Brianna 👍🏻😎👍🏻
and then he switched on the mags and that engine fired right up.Must be his Brother-in-law or The Money
@@dddevildogg
👍🏻😆
I was at a Fire Dept open house this past weekend and was very surprised to find a very old firetruck powered by one of these on display.
I like the way of checking that all cylinders are firing properly 🙂
awesome ty
When I was in A&P school, we had an Allison out of a P-40 on a test stand. It was so cool starting and running that thing. But we dared not take it much past idle. It would torque roll right off the stand if we gave it the beans.
How much can the power of this engine be increased with modern methods? Can it reach 6000 horsepower?
Outstanding!
From the Wright Brothers 2 cylinder motor, to this in less than 40 years, but it was not just the engine. It was metallurgy, machining and machine tools, lubricating oils, high octane fuels, and thousands and thousands who developed the skill sets needed to create these mechanical works of art, none of which existed or only existed in rudimentary form or just thoughts in someones head. People say computers made quantum leaps in technology, but that pales in comparison to all the elements that had to come together to create these engines and the planes they went in. Now, picture this engine in a shot up aircraft approaching the ground at a steep angle, traveling at several hundred miles an hour, and it instantly being turned into pieces of scrap, and maybe a disabled 21 year old pilot who could not bail out, who a couple years earlier was in school and maybe driving a tractor working on his daddy's farm, becoming one with that scrap. That is the real price of war.
What a Beast. Nice job fellas.
Ain’t got no gas in it….
You tell 'em Karl! :D
See there Scooter, He thinks of the simplest things first....(Bill Cox)
I recon I'll have me some them French Fried Potaters .... The Bigguns
@@speedfreak8200 Mmm-hmmm...
@@speedfreak8200 What about that potted meat? you know with the peckers in it.....
This is why aircraft have a check list.
There was an old airfield in Texas in the 1960 s that must have had 10 or 20 sitting in a piece of land , just outside. I remember thinking what kind of engine,s are those?? Later when I saw one in a race boat I knew. They were junked...such a shame.
Truly sad. They're awesome engines.
Late 60's early 70's our shop teacher at Estancia High in Costa Mesa Ca had a setup just like that, when he fired that monster up you could feel as well as hear it a mile away...
Stunning ❤
Pretty engine! Guess it's a similar unit as powered the mighty WW2 era American Kittyhawk. Flown by a couple of Australian squadrons in the Battle of Milne Bay and the defense of Port Moresby. Australia owes a lot to that aeroplane, the people that designed and built it, the industrial power that churned them out and the government that allowed Australia to use them. Thankyou USA.
Within 5 seconds my immediate thought was they forgot to turn the fuel on
There was a trucker out of Elkhart Indiana back in the late 70's to early 80's that ran one of these with a two sticker in an extended hood Pete
Last one I saw run was in an F30 Farmall pulling tractor...50 years ago
I want an engine like that in my Tahoe!
Man it runs clean
Wooow 😮Greetings from Germany Peter
It looked as though they were building oil pressure via leaving the inertia starter clutch engaged with the ignition off.
Hadn't thought of that but registers true. Many of those ww2 aero engines had an oil pressure priming system they'd start with pressure oil already pumped up. IIRC, the Merlin had that and the big radials as well.
Awesome home run enjoy the weekend
Well turned, not one cyl a missfire 😁
The old hand wave tuning concept is excellent
I want one for my garage, just like their set up, just to fire up when I need a little boost 😅
Two minutes in and I’m starting to think that these guys don’t know what they are doing.
Not so fast, aircraft engines do not start like car engines. You crank them for a while to build engine oil pressure and distribute and equalize the fuel prime before energizing the ingition . . . . .
First start, take it easy
Now that is some horsepower! American muscle!! Yeah baby!!
Nothing american about it other than it might have been built under license in Detroit from Rolls Royce
@@gabekremer7148This is an Allison, not a Merlin.
Thanks for sharing
An engineering marvel 😊
I've been around some race boat,s and know mixture setting is hard each time it's started temperature🌡️and air water particulates???
I haven't seen that many pipes in one place since Woodstock™ What a beast! (Ironically that's the same thing my urologist told me) As ICE (ultimately) goes away - Some day... Humans will lament the loss of their thunderous fire machines that grabbed.. no, "assaulted us" in the pit of our stomachs I miss you already. Just saying
I love the smell of aviation fuel in the morning!
Awsome!
Beautiful unit...Nice one...
Very cool!
Living next door to Allison.
Carl from Slingblade walks up and takes the fuel inlet cap off... "Ain't got no gas in it!!"
Ah Yes .... Allison! The best darn hydroplane engine in the world!
In general, this is why pilots had a checklist turn on the fuel turn on the magneto. Make sure the battery was up to par.🤔
absolutely loved the sound of the 24cylinder piston powered hydros when i was kid.
12 cylinders, not 24!
12 cylinders. If you're gonna make something up, at least make it real
Their V12's with 4 valves per cyl. 2 exhaust ports per cyl. & 2 intake! Thus 2 exhaust stacks per cyl! the sound they make at full tilt is amazing coming from an unlimited hydro going 150+ mph on water!😊
WHAT THE HELL IS IT? Well, If Its An Airplane Engine - I AINT FLYING!
That would look nice in my CRX.
Two of these, turbo’d, and supercharged on a pulling tractor in a basketball arena is painful.
I can see, I can visualize a P-38 lightning or a P-40 warhawk with this Allison engine wrap around them! 👍
12,or 24cyl, sounds awesome 😎👍
hEY THE ENEMY JUST COME OVER THE HILL, BETTER GET IT GOING
Okay, but I'm not an Allison expert so:
Whats the displacement? How many cylinders? Whats the configuration? Whats the BHP at the flywheel? What plane did this lump go into?
You know, some information would be useful with a video like this! Thank You in advance.
12 cylinder not real sure on the displacement.. 1710. I think. Was used in the P40,P39,P63,P38 (which was a twin engine airplane), and some of the first P 51s
Smooth.
What a great engine! I'd love to see one in person.
What kind of horsepower do they make?
In stock form, they made about 1400 hp.
@Red-rl1xx Wow, practically as much as my Toyota. 😉😁
That's some serious ponies.
@@Red-rl1xx up to six hrs !
Nice clean fire off..
Wow! Whats the power rating?
What is the highest RPM an Allison V12 can safely be run at? I know 3000 is about the max to subject a prop to, but what about without a prop?
Why are all 12 exhaust ports on one side? Or did the engine have 2 exhaust ports per cylinder?
The engine did have two exhaust ports per cylinder. Much like new cars this engine has 4 valves per cylinder