Warbird Information Exchange

Not being much of a gearhead, I don't know much about the engine collection at Udvar-Hazy, but as I understand it, the collection gets overlooked by most visitors. There are some really cool and ingenious engines on display, so I present you with the pictures I took. If you want to right-click and save any of these pictures, be my guest. As you can see, I am not a professional photographer by any stretch of the imagination. Moderators, if this is the wrong area to post these, sorry...go ahead and move them.

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A great selection of photos. Thanks!

How on earth did a Napier Nomad (the one with the Bird Dog in shot) end up in the States?

My reaction to the first tractor motor photo was 'GEEZ that's an early one', conical blower housing and teeny distributors then a few pix later finding out it's a -33!

When I was at Hill's museum a few years ago, there. sitting all by itself in a lit alcove on the wall under the B-25 sat something that I definately took pictures of, an original Wright/Taylor 4 cylinder horizontal engine. Talk about a touchstone-

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Thanks for posting. Those old reciprocating engines are the best.

The nine cylinder, single row engine in the plastic display case with the blue stub prop is very unique. You can press a button on the display case and the engine splits in half. Then it starts rotating, showing the movement of the master and articulating rods, valve and cam action, etc.

Apparently American Airlines evaluated the engines for their fleet because of their high fuel efficiency but found them too complex. Dunno if this is one of those examples tho...

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Excellant stuff! thanks

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A gift: http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/a ... 9640017000

Dang! Talk about camera envy...the pictures there with the Smithsonian website of all these engines? Holy Crap! The gentleman that I spoke to about the restoration area told me that he had been in charge of photographing everything for the Air and Space museum for the past 20 years. When he told me this, I hid my little Nikon point and shoot. I found one more engine that I took a picture of, but once again I don't know what it is other than one big honker



Thanks for all of the additional information that ya'll have provided. This stuff is so interesting to learn about.

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LYCOMING R-7755 essentially a bunch of inline engines on a common crankcase. A 'fudge' against the R-4360 for the B-36 not making the cut.

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thanks for posting . great pictures.