9 Of The Largest Piston Aircraft Engines Ever
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The engineering that went into just imagining these was insane enough, let alone machining it all and making it all run well enough to be trusted and to keep their pilots safe!!
I'm so glad you included the R-4360. For those of you who don't understand engine naming conventions of American piston engines the first letter designates its configuration. This is why you see R at the beginning of every radial engine as it is what the R stands for. The numbers indicate displacement in cubic inches.
One of the biggest reasons why massive radials are almost all but gone is because of the complexity involved in their design, production cost, maintenance costs, and maintenance time. It took a lot of service to keep these big engines running and with the way trends were going they were set to just get bigger and bigger. As the jet engine came of age it quickly began replacing piston engines in a lot of aircraft operations. Outside of general aviation you won't see piston powered aircraft all that much. There's no real benefit of using them anymore in aircraft that earn revenue or do some kind of work.
Even in prop aircraft that still exist turboprops are becoming more popular as their prices decrease for those who can swing buying aircraft with turboprops as well as the associate operation and maintenance costs. That's not to say piston powered aircraft will be going anywhere for a long time. In fact many advancements have been made and approved by the FAA for piston powered aircraft. Many of the newest general aviation prop planes come with things you are already used to in your own vehicle. Electronic fuel injection, electronic ignition systems, computer management for the engines, and a host of other advancements.
Rotax has pioneered a lot of these advancements and even diesel engines are being put on some aircraft now.
Don't forget diesels now too!
You left out the part where all of these WWII era radial engines were designed to work with high octane Avgas, which contained tetraethyl lead. As TEL got phased out (because environmental lead slowly poisons people and makes children retarded), getting supplies of this high octane Avgas has become a major limiting factor in continuing to economically operate these old engines.
Neat to hear the DB603 coming on and off boost. Not something you often hear with an aero engine.
I love the sounds of jet aircraft, but nothing beats the thundering roar of piston powered aircraft engines.
What’s amazing is that the Napier Sabre was tested at 5,500, more than that put out by that huge Lycoming.
It’s amazing they were able to engineer these engines back then without computers and they built so many of them and they were reliable. Now we have turbine engines that don’t have as many moving parts and make much more power with far less maintenance.
Think, it was less than 50 years before that, that horse and buggy was more common than car. We went from clopping around behind beasts of burden to flying with birds in less than one mans lifetime. Amazing.
Well "reliable" only if you maintain it. The tolerances were huge and they all leaked oil. Tons of oil.
@@carlosandleon they didn’t maintain them during the war they did the bare minimum to get them back in the air obviously after the war maintenance was a much bigger thing. Every engine from this time period leaked oil it doesn’t matter if it was a lawnmower or an aircraft engine we had only been making engine for a handful of decades we didn’t have all the good gasket materials and sealers that we do now and I’m sure they didn’t know that one gasket material will seal better with a rougher machined surface and another gasket with seal better if it were smoother and we for sure didn’t have good seals I mean just look 50 years ago with cars where they had rope rear main seals it was just normal for every car to leak oil. The tolerances of engine manufacturing back then was also bad all the way around and even worse was balancing engines you can find videos from back then where a person is weighing pistons on a scale and before the needle on the scale stops moving they pull the piston off to put another on it lol. There are still surpluses of new old stock engine parts from ww2 for these old engines that still get used. Nowadays it’s normal for a little 4cyl engine in a car to rev past 7,000 rpm smoothly because they are balanced so well and they take thin 0w20 oil because the tolerances are much tighter. I use to work for a Saturn dealership as a mechanic and they used a Saab v6 engine in a few cars and the tolerances were so perfect they didn’t have a stock size main bearing every engine would usually have multiple different size bearings because they manufactured them to much tighter clearances and because they did such a great job machining the bottom ends they would never come in with spun bearings I think the entire time I worked there we did a crank on 2 engines because someone cracked the oil filter housing and leaked all the oil out. Engines have came a very long ways! My grandfather worked on the b-29’s in the Korean War I think they had 18 cylinder wright engines, he flew all over the world in them on missions he said the biggest problems were with the magnetos and then cylinders would crack some times but he said the cylinders were more of a problem when the were doing training in northern Canada because of the super cold weather. Either way it’s amazing some of these old air frames are 80 years old and still in use!
The Wright 2600 is an incredibly durable design, there were accounts of it flying for hours back to base with entire cylinders blown away and still giving power to bring the planes and crews back home.
You really believe u can shoot away a complete cylinder and fly for hours? Your BS alarm should go off immediately. Such accounts are fake.
Those huge engines coming to life is just poetic.
Impressive, but I can't get them to rhyme.
@1:25 that was some very beautiful and skillful flying. Lovely aircraft.
Dad worked on the Wasp engines at SFO when radial engines ruled the skies. These engines always smoked on start-up due to the bottom cylinders pools of oil when stopped. Each engine needed 2 quarts oil needed after a long tun.
I just LOVE the sound of these engines. A bygone era.
Nothing can quite thrill like a giant piston aircraft engine. The visceral experience is amazing. That smooth low frequency sound and propeller hum is such a beautiful sound.
Damn straight 👍
The P&W R-4360 was used in the Boeing B-50 (aka B-29C) and my father flew one on the first non-stop around the world flight in 1949. See: Lucky Lady Ii flight.
It was also used on the massive 6 engine B-36 Peacemaker, as a pusher prop design. Hardly stealthy with the noise it made!
The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major was used on the B-36 Peacemaker, 6 in fact!
The two DB 603 turbo engines revving together sounds great!
DB603 A as installed in the Me410 is supercharged, but you are absolutely right it sounds sweet.
VisioRacer. Thank you for sharing that video. Just for the sake of accuracy FIFI the B 29 Superfortress in the final clip is powered by Wright R 3350’s. The follow to on the B 29 the B 50 also a Boeing design was indeed powered by the mighty Pratt & Whitney R 4360 an engineering marvel in itself. All the best to you.
Torque on these engines is monstrous, around 10,000nm for the Wasp Major
*INSANE!*
What is that in freedom units? 8,000 cheeseburgers per toe?
@@SoI_Badguy I thought it was roughly 6,000 hands - horses
radials often redline between 2000 and 3000 rpm so about 1.8 - 2 times the horsepower to get to feet pints.
Just wait until the Tesla roadster
When discussing the PW R4360, they showed a B-29 as one which used the 4360. However, the B-29 was not powered by the 4360, but a larger, look-alike, the B-50 was. I spent a lot of hours as crew member of aircraft powered by the 4360.
I once visited an airfield to appraise a classic car for a customer and in the clubhouse was a cutaway 28 litre horizontally opposed plane engine,it was a magnificent ornament!
Thanks for the sounds of yesteryear! I grew up during the Cold War on USAF air force bases around the world surounded with the sounds of BIG radials. The first time I crossed the atlantic was on a Lockheed Constellation in the fall of 1959. I know there are a few critics down below but I think they are missing the point. At the time these engines were the cutting edge of a technology era coming to an end. Even my return trip back from Germany in 1962 was on a Boeing 707! And the very last time I flew behind a big radial on a reg sched airline was in 1974 on a Pluna DC-3. The music of a many cylinder orchestra is like a lullaby half a century old! Maybe in another 50 yrs the smell of jet fuel in the morning will be a thing of the past as well. Loyal Fan!!!!!!!!!!
5:14 magnificent sounding aircraft
That plane at 8:00 is an Ilyushin IL18, which uses turboprop engines. In fact you used three separate clips of the same plane and didn't notice it was a turboprop.
The Il-2 shown flying is powered by an Allison V-1710, as there are no Airworthy AM-35 oe 38 Engines.
Epic Fail... ;-)
Definitely turboprop. Can't fit a big radial like he was talking about in the small of a cowl.
The IL18 shown is a popular aircraft in many Eastern countries. The 1946 plane was an abandoned project.
The Il18 in the video is an Air Koryo plane, I've seen the original video from a group of aviation enthusiasts having trips in several planes.
I love how this channel created its own niche and has been going at it for years.
Much appreciated!
@VisioRacer Thank You for doing your homework for the narrative of this video! Not all of us know much about flight history, & the variety of planes btw GB & the US during WWII is overwhelming. I hope youll be doing another flight history video like this one :)
Thank you, VisioRacer. Now I got sounds for my cell phone.
Besides all those marvellous art engineered machines.
I absolutely love your videos, ive been watching them for a couple years now :) I wanted to thank you for shedding light onto all these different types of vehicles, aircraft, engines and everything else that would normally be lost to the pages of history. Where are you from? Im in Denver, Colorado USA
You know it's a powerful engine when the aircraft twists as the throttle is pumped up!
Incidentally, it is not uncommon for multi-engined aircraft to have their engines spin in opposite directions specifically so that this torque effect will be mostly self-cancelling.
I remember seeing a Hawker Sea Fury at the Wanaka Air Show in NZ a long time ago and being impressed by the sound of that engine (Bristol Centaurus).
Sleeve valve monster. It out breathed any poppet valved 'plant but had a lot of extra machinery all the way around that radial.
The maintenance.. The mechanics that took care of these. All over the world. A lost art form. All of these designed on paper.
The R-4360 didn't see service in WWII, but it saw active military service with SAC, powering the frankly ludicrous B-36 Peacemaker. Which still holds the record for the largest wingspan of any combat aircraft - a whopping 230 feet. It gave rise to the least enviable job in the US Air Force at the time - namely, changing all 336 spark plugs on the six engines.
Each engine had it's own crew..
As a former auto tech with dreams of aircraft...this was wonderful. Thanks!
Reminds me a bit of flight of the phoenix especially that first start up. All it needed was Mr Stewart firing the cartridges and Ronald Frazer to count them.
Great video! I really loved the sound demonstration clips!
We just need to get a Napier Sabre running to include in this list!
You better get a move on then. I'm still waiting to to see a flying Typhoon in my lifetime
Nice video! I love looking at old radial designs.
Thank you for this video of these awesome pieces of machinery and the history that goes with them ! 👍
Wow incredible engines with incredible power thank you for sharing them
These engines are so much fun but a lot to work on. 🤘🏻
havent seen this channel pop up in a while. good to be back
Beautiful birds with large hearts, truly unique content!
What? No Napier Sabre?! It had the most original, and rare, configuration of them all, two complete flat 12s laid on top of each other, making it incredibly compact for its 24 cylinders. AND driving by FAR the biggest fighter propeller of WWII: 14 feet. Take that Corsair, and your 2800 driving a puny 12 footer!
The Hawker Fury with Napier Sabre is shown just after the Corsair at 3:57. That had 37 litres from two crankshafts and 24 cylinders. In late 1944 they were doing 2,400bhp but eventually made 3,500 bhp. Test bed engines reached 5,500bhp.
@@davidelliott5843 Sorry mate...not a Napier. That is the Bristol Centaurus. There are no Sabres running at the moment, until the UK Hawker Typhoon resto comes to life in 4 or 5 years.
Agree! Waiting for the Typhoon!
@@@johnmclean6498 - Sorry mate... not a Centaurus. The engine installed in the Fury at 3:57 is an overhead valve design (you can see the rocker covers). The Centaurus is a sleeve valve design.
Which is why they dumped it for the Bristol Centarus.
@visioracer. I want to see some boat engines now! especially ones that incorporate a Merlin v12
It was a nicely compiled video. Even though there was a Turboprop in the mix.....
I like the extreme lean angle in the intro :-)
*Time to change the Spark-Plugs on the Plane..........All 424 of 'em.*
*FML!!*
Not change them.
Remove them.
Clean them.
Inspect them.
Gap them.
Test them.
Reinstall them.
Every 50 hours or 25 hours.
7:40 it's not ash-73, it's ai-20 turboprop.
I was wondering how that ended up in this video about recips
Overall a pretty good video. One aircraft actually was a turboprop and the B-29 uses the 3350. The outwardly similar B-50 uses the more reliable 4360. Keep it up with the videos. Thanks!
52 spark plugs damn . No wonder those mechanics worked all the time .
Thanks for the video . It was great ! Those old engines wil always be the scariest engines ever .in a good way lol
More aircraft videos! Love the ilyushin 2
Hey Visio.... Thanks for all the hard work on creating all your videos Hello from California! 🏄🏼♂️
Radial engines are so cool. They sound so awesome. I just wish I could stuff one in a car.
I like the content. Do an episode on aircraft superchargers & turbochargers , describe the types of superchargers (roots,centrifugal,compound turbo+supercharger) and the application on different types of piston engines.
Super video, doplnil som znalosti, tak ako aj fanúšik aút som fanúšik lietadiel, takže toto video parádne doplnilo tento repertoár celý, zaujímavé...len tak ďalej ✌🏼
7:10 that's in Napa, CA, i saw that VW Bug with the aircraft engine in it. :)
I love this stuff. Thanks for the video!
I always imagined a scaled down Lyocoming XR-7750 based on popular small block V8 engine parts.
Real engineering at its very best. Thank you.
Really interesting. Thanks for that
I saw a B-25 myself recently, it was in my town (Nashua New Hampshire) a month ago
"But it came too late to be applied into war machines"
>Shows B29
Goddamnit Visio.
B-29 used Wright Cyclones, but the later B-50 upgrade of the B29 used PW 4360's
Yeah, that's what I suspected. The B29 and B50 are hard to tell apart. I think Fifi was used for atom bomb testing, right?
@@HSMiyamoto enola gay (plane #82)(now in the smithsonian) dropped the first atomic bomb, bock's car (plane #77)(now in the wright-patterson air force museum) dropped the second atomic bomb
Thanks for the compilation, just be careful what footage you choose for each engine - there are a few danglers where it doesn't match (e.g. 6:00 is not a Centaurus even through the airframe would originally have had one, it's an R-3350 - valve rocker covers are a giveaway ;P)
3:45 we have a pair of R2800s at my Aviation Maintenance school.
Coated in preservative, never used. We think they were built at some point in the 1950s.
Nice work, buddy. Good production ☺
I love those huge radials!! Awesome sound! I was in that last plane you showed called FIFI. Very cool!!
YES! Something somehow soothing about the sound of a big radial. The big V12's too!... The jets are awesome yes, all light and small and powerful and reliable... But their shrill, screechy sound will never match the charismatic rumble, the melodic charms of the big old piston engines!
Thanks for the great Video by nice awesome Sound
7:07 glimpse of a radial powered VW
cannot find footage of that bug doing anything but getting started.
Cool video i saw the whole thing ! Been a sub since 2016 ! (:
i love your videos .... thanks for posting
thanks man, that was awesome
Finally aircraft engines ❤️
The B-29 used very unreliable Wright R-3350 engines as in the B-29 , FiFi, during the war.
It was later improved to be much more reliable for commercial use after WWII.
Eventually evolving into the commercial/military turbo-compound R-3350 where the 4 turbo chargers per engine added ~ 150 HP each directly back to the crankshaft. A sort of “hybrid” between the piston and jet engine ages.
The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 was basically added to the B-29 to create the much more powerful and reliable B-50.
All as the B-36 with 6 R-4360s and 4 jet engines was developed.
This is a great video now days it's so hard to get a real video on TH-cam thank you love that show ❤️
Good explanation !! Great Job !!
can't find a better channel about all things that go fast
Come to Yellowknife! Can still hear many Beavers, C-46’s C-47/DC-‘s, CL-215 until recently, Norseman and one Navy N3N. We have an amazing aviation scene up here. Take care!
Those are some good sounding aircraft engines
Excellent vid, visio! Another one for the thumbs up collection for sure. Big engines for life!
Well, so far, no mention of the biggest of them all. The Lycoming XR 7755. That's 7755 cubic inches, 36 cylinders, 5000 horsepower. Built around 1948. 2 were built and there is a photo of it and its development crew on Wikipedia. It never flew, but was successfully run up on the dyno, eventually producing 5000 hp. With the jets coming on the scene, its market disappeared.
You make some great vid!!
Good video, needs a bit of polishing up though like all the previous comments suggest. Still I like looking at and listening to big radials. It is kinda hard to get some things past all the aviation history buffs.
I saw the 4360 Wright engine when I visited the National air Museum annex out by Dulles airport. As an engineer myself it is mind boggling to think of the amount of design work that had to have gone into it in the pre-CAD days. And to think of the work needed to tear one down and rebuild it. One would have had to darn well follow the instructions to the letter.
The B-36 Peacemaker had 6 of these engines and since the Peacemaker was too big to fit in a hangar the maintenance crews had to service the engines outside... 2 spark plugs per cylinder, 28 cylinders per engine and 6 engines per plane.
Not to mention the use of that cumbersome, hard to read slide rule.
Try the engines of a Super Constellation, not just turbo chargers, superchargers, buckets of sparkplugs, mass quantities of oil, but a power recover turbine coupled via viscous coupling to the crank.
I was a Reciprocating Aircraft Engine mech when I was in the Air force. I worked on R-2000's, R4360's and R1300's.
The 4360 was the sweetest sounding engine of them all, but it was much harder to work on than the 2000 or the 1300.
I enjoyed your video very much, I learned a lot !
Great video Visio there's a lot of content here some don't like but too bad I loved them all.Keep up with different content and you'll always get mine and my buddies thumbs up.
Enjoyed the video tnx 😀🇨🇦
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The interesting thing about most of the German examples is that they ran on relatively low octane fuel. Most American engines were designed for super high octane avgas (normally 130 octane although 150 octane could be requisitioned if required). The Germans had to make do with 80 octane pump gas. As a short fix/booster most German engines were fitted with a water/methanol injection system
3:01 Min.: I LOVE the whining of the chargers of the DB 603 engines of the Me 410! It sounds like turbo chargers!?!?
And I would like to know, when and where this video was made ...
On the Wright Cyclone R3350, you can see the green painted power recovery turbines. Basically the exhaust side of a turbo charger, but with a shaft geared to the crankshaft. Those would provide an additional 150hp per turbine on this engine.
Love te video ... but how could you possibly leave out the extraordinary Napier Sabre?
The development of the Super fortress, the B50, had Wasp 28 cylinder engines. Several P47 Thunderbolts were powered with them but the need was passing. They were expensive to maintain.
Wow, nice video! Some engines look so big and huge smoke when startup.
Radial engines usually smoke on startup because bottom cylinders collect some engine oil if it is not running for some period of time.
для сведения, было две версии самолета Ил-18. В 47-48 году на нем реально стояли указанные двигатели, Аш-73, а на том что показан в ролике, стоят турбовинтовые двигатели Аи-20.
If you happen to go to the Glenn H. Curtis Museum in NY's finger lakes region, they have an R 4360 Wasp Major on display.. The R 4360 was affectionately known as 'The Corn Cob".
And i was hoping to see a DC3 flyby with tha majestic roar of those engines.
great video, and I know this is nitpicking but you portrayed the 4360 with the B-29 which actually utiliized the 3360. aircraft with the 4360 included the Boing stratocruiser/C-97, and the B-36
The British Sea Fury had a Bristol engine slide valves engine very powerful. Yanks stuck wrights in them for convenience. I too saw the turbo prop.
All radial engines pool oil in the bottom cylinder and have the startup smoke. They get turned manually to make sure they did not have a oil lock that would damage the engine Each engine usually needed 2 quarts of oil after a long flight. Dad was an A & P at SFO until jets took over. I still think the Connie is the most beautiful airframe ever made and I would not hesitate to fly in one. It was built like a Swiss Watch and the rebuild was financed by Breitling Watches Company. That is what the B on the triple rudders stand for. There is a TH-cam flight on Camera. Just search for it. Only the German transcontinental plane is close: the FW 200. One of the first " Airforce One " for Hitler. Even President Eisenhower made a Connie an " Airforce 1 " that was his flying office. Thanks for the stroll down Memory Lane.
There are few aircraft in this world as beautiful to me as a Lockheed Constellation/Super Constellation. The B-29 is an elegant plane as well (and I've been lucky enough to see that one, Fifi, in flight. Until recently, she was the only one flying Now, with Doc restored, there are two of them). Neat video!
Beautiful machinery.
Awesome brother. Please make more aircraft engine videos. Thank you for sharing.