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-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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1935, Curtiss-Wright began work on a more powerful version of their successful R-1820 Cyclone 9. The result was the R-2600 Twin Cyclone, with 14 cylinders...
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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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kW/kg) Related development Wright Cyclone series Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone Wright R-3350 Duplex Cyclone Related lists List of aircraft...
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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-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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from Douglas Aircraft on May 25, 1940, equipped with twin Curtiss-Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines (also designated as G-102-A). The CAB investigation of...
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(2,754 kg) Gross weight: 10,000 lb (4,536 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 9-cylinder supercharged air-cooled radial engine, 710 hp (530 kW)...
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development of the nine-cylinder Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9, to power the PS-84. The same Wright Aeronautical Cyclone 9 radial also powered the earliest...
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originally built for civil service had the Wright R-1820 Cyclone, later civilian DC-3s used the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engine. The DC-3 has a cruising...
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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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Whitney R-1690 Hornet A Pratt & Whitney R-2180-A Twin Hornet Comparable engines Bristol Pegasus Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 Related...
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Marshall Headle. Early 14's used the Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet engine; later the Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 was offered as an option. Lockheed built a total...
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used an RD-1820 (a redesigned Caterpillar D-200A air-cooled radial diesel engine, adapted from Wright Aeronautical's Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 nine-cylinder...
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one ventral and two beam machine guns and replaced the 1,100 hp Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9-cylinder radials with 1,200 hp versions (428 produced). The Hudson...
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000 hp) Wright SGR-1820-F52 (760 hp) Wright R-1820-102 (900 hp) Wright R-1820-G2 Cyclone (850 hp) Wright R-1820-G3B (900 hp) Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 (1,200 hp)...
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119 lb (1,868 kg) Gross weight: 7,350 lb (3,334 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9-cylinder Radial, 710 hp (530 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed Performance...
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in a 20% increase in aircraft weight. The B-17's turbocharged Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines were upgraded to increasingly more powerful versions of...
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completed in February 1940. France also ordered the type, powered by a Wright R-1820 "Cyclone 9" radial engine, but France fell to the Axis powers before they...
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radial aero engines, notably the Pratt & Whitney Wasp series and the Wright Cyclone series. The Whirlwind was a direct descendant of the Lawrance J-1, a...
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the United States Navy. It was a high-winged monoplane with two Wright R-1820 Cyclone radial engines mounted in individual nacelles above the wing, resembling...
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inches (12.9 L) and around 200 horsepower (150 kW). These engines were the earliest members of the Wright Whirlwind engine family. The R-790 Whirlwind...
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Wright R-1820-F3. The first M-25s were produced from kits imported from the United States; the main difference between the later M-25 and the R-1820-F3...
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Bristol Jupiter (redirect from Gnome-Rhône 9)
BMW 132 Pratt & Whitney R-1340, first of the famous Wasp radial engine line Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 Related lists List of...
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development of the Shvetsov M-25, a license-built 9-cylinder, air-cooled, radial Wright R-1820-F3 Cyclone engine. Development continued through a series...
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April 1937, powered by Wright R-1820-G3 Cyclone engines, and 20 Model 139Ws sold to Turkey in September 1937, powered by R-1820-G2 engines.[citation needed]...
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stored in the fuselage. Powered by a 950 hp (710 kW) single-row Wright R-1820-22 Cyclone radial engine, it had a good initial climb rate of 2,750 ft/min...
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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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(1,534 kg) Gross weight: 4,500 lb (2,041 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Wright R-1820-G5 Cyclone 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 850 hp (630 kW) Propellers:...
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