Warbird Information Exchange

I dont think Teterboro museum has one. I live 10 minutes from there, ill have to check on that one. Its probably a scan of a picture they have of it. Paterson museum has a pratt 2800 on a real nice rotating display table.

Odd. Im on page three, right next to n5151ts' avatar. At least I'm with a fellow WIXer instead of some maroon haired skateboard kid.
And since I first posted on this thread, I've acquired Graham White's book, "Allied Aircraft Piston Engies of WWII."

blue skies,

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You are FAMOUS............oh, sorry, it's 16 minutes after the hour the new famous guy is............................................ Could you possibly dye your goatee blue?

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Is this his 15 minutes of fame?

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"WHAT ME WORRY?"

We are all legends in our own minds

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i know I am,and I crack me up often

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Thank ya, thank ya vurry much!

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"I love the smell of 100LL in the morning."

Looks like the X-4520 was delivered to the Army in 1928....

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-Bill
B-17E 41-2595 "Desert Rat" Restoration Team

Pull up the LYCOMING R-7755, a 5000 H.P. mega motor that was the backup plan in case the 4360 didn't pan out in the B-36. It is the largest aircraft engine ever built (excluding dirigible power) the Smithsonian has one of the two ever built and standing on it's accessory end it looks like a circle of straight 6 truck engines

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I got a good shot of her a while back. Shes a Bigun...

Udvar Hazy - Smithsonian 11/11 by Cherry Bomb Photography, on Flickr

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
Open to Suggestions

Wonder what it sounded like @ higher RPM's

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Do-17z fact and history site, setting it straight.
There is something deeply wrong with a society more offended by breasts than by entrails.

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The picture posted above isn't the R-4090.I think that it's the Wright Tornado.That was even more of a monster of around 7750 cubic inches.I found a site with pictures and info on the R-4090,which was more or less an R-3350 on steroids.Here's a link to the site:

http://www.enginehistory.org/Wright/R-4 ... 4090.shtml

I tried to correct my post above,but I couldn't,so here's a correction.The earlier engine pictured was the Lycoming XR-7755.Here's a link to info on that engine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_XR-7755

This link is good for info and pictures of the R-4090.It looks a lot like a Wright R-3350 on steroids:


http://www.enginehistory.org/Wright/R-4 ... 4090.shtml