How To Build A 4,300hp Aviation ’Wasp Major’ In The 1930s?

Known as one of the largest living piston engines ever in aviation, this 28-cylinder marvel was one of a kind in real working aircraft out there. Pratt & Whitney managed to get things right and achieved noteworthy success with it. Although it came too late to be used in the war, it proved useful even after. However, during development things would not go as easy and engineers had to think outside the box to finish this challenging assignment. - Time stamps - 00:00 Intro 00:39 Purpose 01:31 The early development 02:23 Firing, angles and numbering 03:53 General design and materials 04:39 Challenges during development 05:03 Crankcase design 06:05 Head and valvetrain 06:38 Cooling 07:30 Large engine issues 08:01 Horsepower rating 08:25 Foreign potential rivals 09:07 Largest piston aircraft engine from the USA 09:26 Hughes aircraft 09:46 Final words - Vlog - - Support - - Disclaimer - This video is fair use under U.S. copyright law because it is transformative in nature, uses no more of the original than necessary and has no adverse effect on the market for the original work. - Credits - “AVIÃO - Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter” by AVI O - Torre de Controle, vários VÍDEOS “Pratt & Whitney R 4360 Wasp Major” by Gunnar Hovmark “C- 124 “Globemaster II“ closeup” by Big Rig Experience تجربة مسافر “NASA Super Guppy Take Off” by AIRBOYD “BAHF Boeing C-97 Start Up & Take Off June 4, 2019” by Hagerstown Aviation Museum “Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Radial Engine” by SUPERFRAME VFX “Hughes’ H-4 Hercules Flies! (1947) | 4k Up-scaled” by Alex the Historian “Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp cutaway” by Matthew Knipple “Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp Cutaway” by Bruce Anderson “DSC 0054” by Allen Kratz “Wasp Major” by benp1981 “Pratt and Whitney 4500 HP Wasp Major Engine” by herbcrosby “R-4360” by Mike Nieman “Pratt & Whitney R-4360” by MarsTSM “Super Corsair Race Plane 74 Start Up” by apirnala “A Cutaway Work Of Art” by Transmission Repair “R4360 Startup. FIRE!” by sy2207 “Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major and Continental R- 975 restoration” by esoWIND “Pratt and Whitney R-4360 Engine” by 844Steamtrain “Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major Cutaway” by Bruce Anderson “Six Turning Four Burning - Convair B-36 “Peacemaker“ (HD)” by Petittwo “Flying Super Corsair First Time” by F4U-P51 Videos “Pratt and Whitney R-4360 cutaway” by Mr1971alfa “Pratt & Whitney R-4360 28 Cylinder Radial Aircraft Engine Cutaway” by TheTunerdude “Super Guppy Test Flight & Tour” by Astro95Media “NASA Super Guppy Lands With Orion Space Vehicle (Nov-2019)” by Gung Ho Vids “United Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Hawaii Travelogue - 1950” by Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture “First Flight of the second Hughes XF-11 | Boeing Classics” by Boeing Classics “C-97 Landing and Taxi at Hagerstown Regional Airport” by John Seburn