Warbird Information Exchange

Yeah, all four of the Yankee Lady's are Studebakers...and purr like kittens.

The list so far:

Dodge - R-3350
Ford - R-4360
Studebaker - R-1820
Packard - V-1650
Buick - R-1830
Chevy - R-3350

I'll add these:

Allison - V-1710 (Allison is a division of GM)

Chrysler - built some prototype aero engines which did fly, but did not reach production (example: XIV-2220 used in a P-47 prototype).

Cheers!

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

Ford also built 2800's.

Gary

R2800-AN1 by Nash Kelvinator

TEXAS RAIDERS has at least one Studley Baker.
I'll count 'em all tomorrow.

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The only reasons the airplanes matter is what the veterans did with them... and why.

our b-17 at the strategic air and space museum has all 4 stud built cyclones, all props still turn

Thanks a bunch all!

I can't vouch for the virtues of Stude- vs Wright-built R1820s...but I can state that the little Stude straight-six in my Lark runs beautifully...and her "rate of climb" is better than my modern car's, she goes like stink up hills. Now if all this snow would please leave, I could drive the Stude again!

Interesting sidebar about car companies building aircraft engines (or, as in the case of Ford, thousands of complete aircraft). Not mentioned, and perhaps never built as such, is the Miller L710 that would have powered Preston Tucker's XP-57, a kind of midget P-39; Miller of course was chiefly famous for his Indianapolis race engines.

Talking of Tucker, as I understand it the engine in the ill-starred 1948 Tucker sedan was close kin to a Franklin flat-six aircraft engine; and of course Lycoming engines were in the classic Duesenberg Js and SJs long before the brand became so common out front of Cessnas and the like.

Thanks again for the info on the Stude R1820s...

Cheers

S.

Our Lockheed C-60 has a Studebaker 1820. So they didn't just go into B-17's.

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Col Craig Duck
Life Member CAF
Life Member YAF
Life Member EAA

Over at the Studebakers Drivers Club forum...I'm a member, I own a '63 Avanti...they had a similar discussion.

From personal recent experience I can vouch for the fact the the EAA B-17 has a Studebaker engine (#3 when saw it, I believe).

Also the static Mary Alice at the Duxford American Air Museum is said to have 3 Studebaker engines.

BTW: a Studebaker collectables vendor makes several T-shirts with color wartime Studebaker magazine ads featuring B-17s....pretty neat.

His name is bondobilly if you want to do a web search.

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.

Craig,
Before we changed the #1 on 'Lady Lodestar' both engines were Studs. It was always a hit with the Stud owners to get their cars photographed with the Lockheed for that reason.
Bob

Col Duck--

Thanks for that...knew Stude-built Cyclones sometimes went onto DC-3s (am going to check the "local" example--a Cyclone-engined prewar DC-3 painted as a Dakota--at CWH tomorrow to see if either of those 1820s is a Stude), but did not realize Lodestars were so equipped as well.

JBoyle--

Oh shoot, why didn't I recognize that name from the SDC forum? I joined SDC right after acquiring my Lark and am on the forum often; the Steve Ts on both SDC and WIX are me...Thanks for the reminder about Bondobilly, I need to order a Lark ballcap from him. (Coincidentally BTW the reason I'll be at CWH tomorrow is that the monthly SDC Hamilton chapter meeting is there. Past prez of SDC Hamilton is former CWH Beech 18 pilot Paul Cronkwright, which I think is the main reason the meetings are where they are. I'm a member of CWH as well as SDC. Small world.)

Cheers

S.

Steve T.,
Say Hi to Bob Patullo at CWH if you run into him.
Lone Star's PBY had Buick engines when new. Diff. dash number now, though.
I didn't know Stude built Cyclones until I was involved in washing the B-17 at LS a couple of years ago. But as Jack F. pointed out, the only part that you can be sure of being a Studebaker is the badged engine cases, since any airworthy example has been rebuilt at least a few times since new.
Also, that wash day while talking about car-builder a/c engines, I was told that common B.S. in wartime AAF in the ETO was that crews sought to avoid 17's with Stude engines since they were thought to be less reliable. I believe the passage of time proved those guys wrong!

Doug Ratchford 'Canso42'