O-1230-powered Vultee XA-19A

[A68-1001]

dont know if this has been on the site before , new to me anyway and interesting
Vultee XA-19A powered by a Lycoming O-1230 Flat-12 Aircraft Engine

https://oldmachinepress.com/2018/04/20/ ... ft-engine/

[phil65]

I will have to check that out next time I'm at the New England Air Museum, which should be over the Thanksgiving weekend...

Phil

[Scott Rose]

I will have to check that out next time I'm at the New England Air Museum, which should be over the Thanksgiving weekend...

Phil

I was thinking of making a run down there myself next week.

[phil65]

Behind the Scenes Tours, Friday, November 29, 2019...

https://www.neam.org/images/programs/sa ... -flyer.pdf

Phil

[Dan K]

lycoming-o-1230-vultee-xa-19a-side on Flickr


Anybody else thinking "WIX Club Plane"?

We've got a surviving powerplant...

Bench seating for seven ala Bob Diemert...

Scott D. can handle the funky compound curves...

Cool factor of 11 on a scale of 1 to 10...

[Woodsy Airfield]

Reference the O-1230 Engine, It may have been contributed to the Bradley Air Museum back then by Walter Soplata. I had visited his collection in the early 1970's and he showed me two large experimental engines stored in or near the KC-97 fuselage. Upon recollection, one could have been the O-1230 and the other the Chrysler engine that was used experimentally on a P-47 - both very large. Sometime after the Bradley tornado, I visited again and he showed me the wreckage of the front cockpit section of the C-124 and fuselage of a T-29 of which he had made a deal for his F7U Cutlass and at least one of these large experimental engines with the museum. I didn't realize the importance of some of his engines as there was always too much to see and didn't take further notes. I know he also had an Allison V-3420 and an X engine which was right out of WWI.. It has always amazed me what one man could accomplish...By the way, the Cutlass part of the deal fell through as is well known...

[Mark Sampson]

That XA-19A should have been named the "Pelican", for rather obvious reasons.

[sandiego89]

New one to me.

I'd be gentle on the brakes- she looks nose heavy.