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... Or is it "Motors, Motors and more Motors". Per a few long overdue requests, here's a big batch of machines that make propellers turn for the motorheads.
I would love to be able to pinpoint and label the types but sorry, even though I know most the engine types in these photos, my knowledge is not enough to try to label them properly without making errors (and as you know I rarely make errors ). Sources, SDASM archives, Fold3 archives, Library of Congress archives.

Part 1 of many


Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in January 1945


Mounting an engine on a B-29


Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas in January 1945


Curtiss C-46A engine inspection. (U.S. Air Force photo)


Curtiss C-46A engine with propeller and cowling installed. (U.S. Air Force photo)


Del Valle Air Base, Photograph, January 6, 1943


Del Valle Air Base became Bergstrom Air Force Base


Mechanics Repair The Engine Of A Douglas C-47 At A 14Th Air Force Base In China.


Guiding Engine Into Place On Engine Mount Of A Boeing B-29.

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The largest and smallest aero engines in our old aero engine collection. This photo taken some 30 years ago.
The Massive Allison V-3420, and the two cylinder 1930 Cleone, aero engines

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Part 2


Douglas C-33 (SN 36-87, tail code KD 11) at March Field, Calif., during a 1,500 flight hour maintenance check at San Antonio Air Depot on March 17, 1939


Retrofit of a B-29 Superfortress with Allison V-3420-11 inline engines at Cleveland Fisher Body plant circa 1944.


Airplane engines salvaged from damaged aircraft are in need of 4th echelon repair. Until 9th AFSC rear installations are set up in France


After undergoing a complete overhaul at the 4th Air Depot engine overhaul and repair shop at Garbutt Field, Townsville, Australia, aircraft engines are oiled papered & crated


After complete tests these engines were then shipped in Douglas C-47s to India, North Africa & Palestine.


Aircraft Engine Overhaul In New Guinea. Mechanics Trained By Air Technical Service Command Begin To Strip Down The Engines


Aircraft engine being changed by the 386th Air Service Squadron on Lingayen Airstrip, Luzon Island, Philippine Islands. 27 April 1945.


A ground crew changes two of the engines on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippine Islands. August 1945.


25 July 1942 B-17E serial 41-9045 Stinky of the 414th Bomb Sq, 97th BG gets an engine change en route to England.


9th Air force P-38 Lightning fighter-bomber undergoing repairs by mechanics at a base somewhere in Belgium.


9th Air force mechanics pictured at work repairing engines ona P-38 Lightning fighter-bomber somewhere in Belgium


4-33051 (Republic P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt) 404th FG 507th FS


2Nd Air Base Group Engine Shop At An Airfield In Iceland. 3 August 1942.

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I believe photo #2 is the fitting of an R-4360 to the XB-44 (B-29A-5-BN, 4293845) to produce the XB-29D (later B-50) prototype.

Spirit of Lincoln was actually the #1 YB-29 (4136954) and the ALLISONS made it the XB-39. It wound up back at KBFI as a company line maintenance trainer after being converted back to B-29 status and was cutup after the war. (did ya notice the XP-75 fuselage behind the left wing?)

You realize you're driving Warbird Kid nuts with all those engine crane photos don'tcha?

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Part 3


Engine change - Vought Corsair


Douglas XTB2D-1 in the Altitude Wind Tunnel


Curtiss YA-10


Curtiss C-46 Commando Burma


CPL James Simon (L) & SGT Myron Gilbertson, 26th Ftr Sq, 51st FG. 16 March 1943..


Cpl Frank Kish, Sharon, Pa., 7Th Fighter Group, Works On An Engine Of A Curtiss P-40, One Of The Fighter Planes At Dobodura, New Guinea. May 1943.


cowling panels removed from a P-47D assigned to the 83rd Ftr Sq, 78th FG after a mission to Berlin in the spring of 1944.


Class In A Raf Station In Burtonwood, England, Men Are Receiving Practical Instruction On A Allison In-Line Engine


Chinese Personnel Work On An Airplane Engine Installed In A Training Aid Truck At Nanking, China.


B-24J Bolivar engine replacement


B-24J Bolivar engine replacement


B-24J Bolivar engine replacement


An Engine Change Is Made With The Use Of An Improvised Lift And The Help Of Chinese At Peishihwa, China

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Part 4


Engine change on a 47th Ftr Sq P-51D, 15th FG, Iwo Jima.


Engine change on a 47th Ftr Sq P-51D, 15th FG, Iwo Jima.


Engine change on a 47th Ftr Sq P-51D, 15th FG, Iwo Jima.


Engine change on P-47D 42-75302 Dee-Icer, 73rd Ftr Sq, 318th FG, Saipan.


Engines are checked on the test block before they are installed in planes by men of the 36th Air Depot Group at the airdrome at Maison Blanch, Algeria. 27 October 1943.


Engines Are Lined Up For Repairs In The Engine Repair Shop Of The 364Th Service Group At The 91St Bomb Group Base In Bassingbourne, England. 15 September 1943.


FRANCE-TSgt. Melvin L. Stetson, 229 South Main Street, Albion, N.Y., works on the engine of a Northrop P-61 9th Air force night fighter,

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Part 5


Mechanics Of The 14Th Air Force Work On A Republic P-47 At A Base Somewhere In China. 14 August 1944.


mechanic, makes front line repairs to the power plant of a small plane used to direct the fire of artillery on the front in Northern France.


May 1944 SGT Bill Trickey sprays down the engine with solvent on the ramp at Duxford. Aircraft is P-47D 42-26630 (coded MX-H) assigned to 78th FG


Ground crewmen of the 354th fighter-bomber group of the Ninth Air force repair a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt engine in the open air at a front line airfield.


Ground Crewmen And Mechanics Work Side By Side On The Main Bearing Of A Republic P-47. 30 October 1943.


French Air Corps Mechanics Installing Parts And Equipment On A Republic P-47 'Thunderbolt'.

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Part 6


Mechanics Of The 16Th Fighter Squadron, 51St Fighter Group, Work On The Engine Of A Fighter Plane At An Air Base In China. 20 October 1942.


Mechanics Of The 400Th Air Base Squadron At Alexai Point Airbase, Attu, Aleutian Islands


Mechanics Reparing The Consolidated B-24 Liberater 'Sky Scow' Of The 30Th Bomb Group, 7Th Air Force


Mechanics Work On A Republic P-47 As A Formation Of 'Thunderbolts' Returns To Its Base After A Raid Over Kyushu. Ie Shima, Ryukyu Retto. 3 May 1945.


Men At Work At The 448Th Sub-Depot, 381St Bomb Group, England, 22 April 1944.


New Caledonia


overhauling at the 4th Air Depot engine overhaul and repair shop at Garbutt Field, Townsville, Australia. 28 May 1943.


P-39 Hawaiian Islands

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Part 7


PACIFIC THEATER, MAINTENANCE,ENGINES


Personnel At Work In The Packard Engine Assembly Line Of The 2Nd Base Air Depot Lancashire, England. 8 June 1944.


Personnel At Work In The Packard Engine Assembly Line Of The 2Nd Base Air Depot Lancashire, England. 8 June 1944


Pvt 1st Class Alfred E. Jenson, 27, 3908 42nd Ave., Minneapolis, Minn., checking the final tags on the assembled ofrtress engines.


Running an aero-engine on a test rig in New Caledonia


serial 42-30613 (was Shoo Shoo Baby number and it was a B17-F without chin turret)


Snow means added tasks for the ground crews maintaining the Consolidated B-24 Liberators in England.


Spare Parts Consolidated B-24 Liberator, which suffered battle scars in an attack on Neunkirchen on 27 May 44 is getting a new No. 3 engine


SSGT E.L. Sullivan, crew chief, 23rd FG. 26 September 1942.

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Part 8


SSgt. Billy Garner, Bergville, Ark., Crane Operator Shown Removing Old Motor From A Curtiss P-40 Prior To Installing A New One In The Plane At Dobodura, New Guinea. May 1943.


SSgt. Herman O. Wilkie, Removes The Cellophane Protection Covering From One Of The New Motors At The 7Th Fighter Maintenance Depot, Dobodura, New Guinea. May 1943


The First Boeing B-29 To Land On Okinawa, Ryukyu Retto Was Forced Down When Two Of Its Engines Failed. Here, Maintenance Men Are Shown Installing A New Engine


This is the only hangar for the Liaison Squadron's planes. Just a windbreak for the mechanics


Two crew members of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator prepare to make an engine change.


Valve Guide On Cylinder Heads Of Boeing B-17 Engines At Burtonwood Air Depot Near Warrington, England. 22 October 1943.


Working on an Allison engine outside the dispersal area, this is an example of primative conditions for maintenance in New Guinea.


Toonerville Trolley a B-24G, unknown Group and serial number.

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Part 9




Engine Change Being Made On A Douglas C-47. Panama.

... And finally proof that chicks do dig motorheads ....


English Girls Watching Air Mechanics Working On The Engines Of A B-24. England.

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pix 1 part 6, in the backround are some Vultee P-66s, first time I've seen them in China

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More objects that make other objects turn real fast that in turn make bigger objects move to the point they lift off the ground.


JRM-1 flying boat Marianas Mars pictured undergoing an engine change in the a hangar at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Maryland c 1946


Some more of the above but in color.


Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas-2


Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.


The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif-3.



The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif-2.


The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.


Making wiring assemblies at a junction box on the fire wall for the right engine of a B-25 bomber


Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas


Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas (with a pissed off woman watching) lol


Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Cali

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Is that Tad Hunter^

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You mean Tab Hunter? No that's not him ... but he is my neighbor. I've known Tab for quite a while. Haven't seen him though recently as he is getting up there in age.

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