aircraft engine

[SuperchargedMustang5]

50 gallons pet mile

[vandetta1981]

Just imagine the heat generated by this kind of thing! Good luck for the cooling!

[Blueich9]

i build it in MC

[TheAthensriot]

lol



[unclefreddie70]

It looks like 7 inline-6's connected together. Cool.

[mpetersen6]

Looks like an animation of the pistons for a Wright 42 cylinder Tornado A/C engine. Run on test stands but never flown to my knowledge.

[Fu3R4]

@mpetersen6 I bet, that thing must weigh a ton...or two.

[khaled6100]

no shit ??!!

[falaqdad15]

Imagine what that would sound like :D

[whazzup3nine29]

@falaqdad15 lol ask the nazis...when we flew overhead XD

[falaqdad15]

@whazzup3nine29

hahaha

[pskittle488]

Everyone is thinking way too big, I want to use this to run a pencil sharpener.

[1tirefryer]

could i put this in my lawnmower?

[akinorhan5]

i will know how much rmp it does :D

[rapaceable]

fuck! i am not gonna travel by plane again.

scary engine...

[hayden12w3]

There are actually 42 pistons.

[TooSlowForSpeed]

Th.. that.... That actually works??? .... D: i should run that on my bmx bike....

[ataraxic89]

Why cant you people count? There are 36 pistons.

[bcraig15]

looks like a Wright R-2160. 7 banks of 6 cylinders each. And unlike most radials, the cylinders actually were inline because it was liquid cooled, with each bank being enclosed in a water jacket.

[dablenuno]

thats what drives my brain

[bravozulu51]

Didnt they call this type of radial engine the corn cob?

[Bamchucknorris]

Imagine having to overhaul this engine! 

[Warblade118]

42 cylinders?

I'd hate to be the poor s.o.b that has to change plugs or worse, rings.

[irish89055]

@Warblade118 28 cylinders... 56 plugs.. easy to foul all in a flash

[codsixrules]

Imagine haveing to replace the piston rings!

[louthleviathan]

kick the tyres and light the fires big daddy

[FlyingSnake110]

One thing:

In engines of that type (few radial engines combined on one axis) cylinders are not arranged in rows like here.

The follow a curve, so all cylinders can be cooled evenly, by airflow, which is very idea of radial engine design in opposition to in-line or V designes.

[TuxedoRonny]

With this I shall build the world's most powerful merry-go-round.

[gblpst81]

30 cylinders. Sweet. I'd like to squeeze that under the hood of my jeep. I wouldn't need a transmission, just a throttle, clutch, and the right differential.

[lastingpain22]

@gblpst81

Its too bad rotary engines have little torque compared to the one in your car.

You'll have a helluva time trying to get out of your driveway.

[gblpst81]

@lastingpain22 This isn't a rotary engine. Mazda RX-7's and RX-8's have rotary engines. They're based on the original Wankel rotary engine design. This is a radial engine and it has plenty of torque. It's essentially 5 straight-six engines all sharing the same crankshaft. The Wright R-3350, for example, has just 18 cylinders and a power-to-weight ratio that's about 2.4 times better than the 4.0L Jeep engine, and that's a Jeep engine with some good torque. 30 cylinders in a Jeep would be great.

[amartinjoe]

...wait...now that's just way too many pistons.....is that even for real?

[OsoTheo]

@amartinjoe yep it has pistons on all differnt angles so the plains can spin and the engine wont stall...

[00Resev]

@amartinjoe

Yes it is.

This is what is called a radial engine, and its the sort of engine that was used in some propeller planes in the past.

This configuration would probably only fit in a very large craft, like a large scale bomber.

The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine is probably the most famous of radial engines.

It was the engine equipped by the F6F Hellcat, the P-47 Thunderbolt, the F4U Corsair, among many others.

It had 18 cylinders arranged in two rows, and developed over 2500hp.

[jt8fan7272]

Jets are way better lol

[allbusiness22]

looks like a gang bang of pistons

[MsDjonni]

бред..

[Bamchucknorris]

people there really are water cooled radials like this.. good examples are Dragonfire (42 cyl) and the Lycoming r-7750 (36 cyl)

[MustangTurboX]

Why not edit the viper engine V10 to this fucking engined many cylinders to be like this "X42 Viper Engine" in the back of the bed of the truck in 2007 Dodge Ram R/T SRT-10 to be "2010 Dodge Ram R/T SRT-42"? Rofl. That was my idea.

[Amypr1ncess]

could you repeat that, in english this time?

[lucashc2]

Look at Pratt & whitney Wasp Major R-4360, a 35 cylinders radial engine diplayed in 4 rows of 7 in a spiral configuration (for better cooling)... around 4.600hp per unit.

Howard Hughes's Hercules used 8 of these.

XD

[Treetop64]

4 rows of 7 cylinders = 35?!

Where did you go to school...? XD

[GGigabiteM]

4x7=28, learn to maths.

The early versions of the R4360 were only 3,000 HP, which is what the Hughes H-4 Hercules used.

The last -51VDT engine produced 4,300 HP, but it was disliked by ground crews due to being maintenance intensive and only having a MTBO of 600 hours, compared to the R3350 with a 5000 HR MTBO and a similar power of between 2,500 and 3,800HP.

[randommagnum]

Imagine how hard it would be to cool that son of a bitch!

[bostondog55]

holy shit!! how many cylinders is it?

[PsuPepperoni]

this particular one had 30

[NathansBackwoods]

42 cylinders

[HYPHYDUM408]

Big blob of moving cylinders lol.

do they ever use straights or inlines in aircrafts instead of radials?

[angryace13]

yes they do use inline engines, the spitfire, mustang, bf109 messerschmitt, the fw190D9, and even the lancaster bomber used some sort of v12 engines, and the albatros had a inline 6, and the wright flyer had a straight 4. some aircraft like the sopwith camel, and the dr fokker had rotary piston engines. and some have boxer engines too.

[Sqquiid]

dude

how many fucking cylinders do you want

complete impossible

[AmericansSexualPreds]

hhahahaaa right

[angryace13]

actually this isnt impossble, a radial engine was made with 5 rows of nine cylinders, it ran and created 5,000hp.

[hydrogenix]

what a waste of metal.................

[CenterLane1977]

what program did you make that in?

[bobatosenior]

use a calculator :-D

[tigerhellmaker]

Wohoooooooo...........

Nice.

[enggizo]

how many pistons ?

[angryace13]

well there are 6 rows of 7 cylinders wich equals up to 47 cylinders. and thats alot....

[enggizo]

6 rows of 7 cylinders

how 47 ?

[angryace13]

sorry i ment 42 cylinders.

[haqeem18]

it's a radial engine

[Xenophoebus]

Is there any Wasp major models?

[angryace13]

wasp major was 3 rows of 9 cylinders.

[TommyWylie]

Wasp Major was four rows of seven cylinders.

[angryace13]

holy crap your right

[seang15243]

If you start one of these wrong and foul the plugs, it takes hours to fix. So get it right the first time, please.

[xerox12345]

WTF imagine setting the timing on this beast...

[nmdirtbiker]

@xerox12345 just like any other engine set it off cyl. #1 TDC all others will follow

[Ginrai89]

@xerox12345 No thanks .. :D

[NightHowl92]

@xerox12345 some quit some turned to drugs and alcohol

[Boeserwolf93]

i always wonder what gets the ignitions to spot the right time

[daveinsd]

Multi-row radial engines were the epitome of internal combustion technology for airplanes. Jets came next, and killed these.

[hoosiercub]

Mainly because somehow jet engines are more fuel efficient..

[angryace13]

depending on the size of the aircraft.

[mannylap]

Moteur radial.... increvable... certain avaient jusqu'à 3000 chevaux. Comme ceux du B29

[FRtdi130]

42 pistons

[GigaMinion]

yay, i'm putting one in my car.... lol

imagine how powerful this would be had it been diesel or something.. lol

[roycehellion]

that would be a 36 cylinder engine. talk about incredible horsepower

[newcomer9747]

that's way overkill

[CISCO42504]

damm thats alot of power

[superzkid]

WTF HOW MANY PISTONS IS THAT??!!? (V38 lol)

[erat91]

it cant be a V if its a radial... er i dunno what it is, but its not a V