Wright R-975 Whirlwind was a series of nine-cylinder air-cooled radial aircraft engines built by the Wright Aeronautical division of Curtiss-Wright....
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The Wright R-790 Whirlwind was a series of nine-cylinder air-cooled radial aircraft engines built by Wright Aeronautical Corporation, with a total displacement...
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The Wright Whirlwind was a family of air-cooled radial aircraft engines built by Wright Aeronautical (originally an independent company, later a division...
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Wright R-540 Whirlwind was a series of five-cylinder air-cooled radial aircraft engines built by the Wright Aeronautical division of Curtiss-Wright....
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(NA-19). The U.S. Army Air Corps ordered 42 BT-9s, equipped with the Wright R-975 Whirlwind engine, and 40 BT-9As, which could be armed with .30 cal. Browning...
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Wright R-760 Whirlwind was a series of seven-cylinder air-cooled radial aircraft engines built by the Wright Aeronautical division of Curtiss-Wright....
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was Wright Aeronautical's R-975 Whirlwind. However, during the war, the Wasp Junior was far more widely used in aircraft than the R-975, and Wright ceased...
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of the North American T-6 Texan. BT-9 Basic Trainer with 400hp Wright R-975-7 Whirlwind and new canopy. Dangerous stall resulted in a variety of unsuccessful...
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existence. The main customer for the aircraft equipped with the Wright R-975 Whirlwind air-cooled radial engine was the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army...
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The Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone is an American twin-row, supercharged, air-cooled, radial aircraft engine with 18 cylinders displacing nearly 3,350 cubic...
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Hispano-Suiza 8F Hispano-Suiza 9Q licensed Wright R-975 Whirlwind Hispano-Suiza 9T diesel radial Hispano-Suiza 9V licensed Wright R-1820 Cyclone Hispano-Suiza 12B...
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Sherman tanks were causing supply issues with the 9-cylinder radial Wright R-975 Whirlwind engine used. The U.S. Army decided it needed to source additional...
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The Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 is an American radial engine developed by Curtiss-Wright, widely used on aircraft in the 1930s through 1950s. It was produced...
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The Wright R-2600 Cyclone 14 (also called Twin Cyclone) is an American radial engine developed by Curtiss-Wright and widely used in aircraft in the 1930s...
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sub-types ran on gasoline. The air-cooled Continental-produced Wright R-975 Whirlwind 9-cylinder radial gasoline engine in the M4 and M4A1 produced 350...
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Wright Cyclone was the name given to a family of air-cooled radial piston engines designed by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and used in numerous...
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List of aircraft engines (section Curtiss-Wright)
× 114.3 mm) Wright R-460 Wright R-540 Whirlwind Wright R-760 Whirlwind Wright R-790 Whirlwind Wright R-975 Whirlwind Wright R-1200 Simoon Wright R-1300 Cyclone...
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2 April 2011. Retrieved 2022-05-10. "Wright R-1510 Whirlwind". www.all-aero.com. Retrieved 2022-05-08. "Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9". Ken's Aviation Photography...
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The Wright R-2160 Tornado was an experimental 42-cylinder, 7-cylinder per row, 6-row liquid-cooled inline radial aircraft engine. It was proposed in 1940...
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53 imp gal); oil tank:20 L (5.3 US gal; 4.4 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Wright R-975 Whirlwind 9-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engine, 240 kW (320 hp) Performance...
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330 hp (250 kW) Jacobs L-6MB R-915 engines. Mk IV One aircraft converted from a Mk I in Canada to two Wright R-975 Whirlwind engines. Mk V 1,069 Mk Vs were...
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(260 kW) Wright R-975-E radial engine CW-B-14R (Racer) 1 built as a racer for Casey Lambert with 420 hp (310 kW) Wright J-6-9 Whirlwind/SR-975 radial engine...
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400 lb (635 kg) Gross weight: 3,500 lb (1,588 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Wright R-760E2 Whirlwind 7-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 350 hp (260 kW) Propellers:...
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The Wright R-1300 Cyclone 7 is an American air-cooled seven-cylinder supercharged radial aircraft engine produced by Curtiss-Wright. The R-1300 is basically...
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The Wright J65 was an axial-flow turbojet engine produced by Curtiss-Wright under license from Armstrong Siddeley. A development of the Sapphire, the...
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The Wright R-4090 Cyclone 22 was an American experimental radial piston engine designed and built in prototype form by Wright Aeronautical during the...
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Rolls-Royce Olympus (redirect from Wright J67)
Olympus 593 for Concorde. Versions of the engine were licensed to Curtiss-Wright in the US as the TJ-32 or J67 (military designation) and the TJ-38 'Zephyr'...
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R-1340 Wasp, R-1830 Twin Wasp, R-2000 Twin Wasp and R-2800 Double Wasp, Bristol Hercules 634, Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah IX, Wright R-975 Whirlwind and...
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DH.75B Final production aircraft fitted with a 300 hp (224 kW) Wright R-975 Whirlwind radial engine; one built. DH.75A VH-UNW retrofitted to this standard...
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Wasps. C-9 Redesignation of C-3As fitted with 300 hp (220 kW) Wright R-975-1 Whirlwind radials XB-906 5-AT-D modified into bomber with three 500 hp (370 kW)...
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