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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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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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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2022-05-08. "The Wright Cyclone Engine". Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology. 7 (4): 91–94. 1935. doi:10.1108/eb029923. "Wright H-3 V-8 Engine...
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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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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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available with wheels, floats or skis. The aircraft was powered by either a Wright Cyclone or Pratt and Whitney Hornet engine. The Airbus and Aircruiser served...
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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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Cyclone, Indiana, an unincorporated community Cyclone, Kentucky, an unincorporated community Cyclone, Missouri, an unincorporated community Cyclone,...
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increased wingspan, electrically operated split flaps, and the Wright R-1820 Cyclone engines increased from 650-hp to 735-hp. Range improved to 1000...
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was a Keystone B-3A with Wright Cyclone rather than Pratt & Whitney engines. Three B-3A (LB-10A) were reengined with Wright R-1750-3 radial engines and...
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18-40 Powered by two 1,200 hp Wright Cyclone G-1820-G104A engines; 26 built. 18-50 Powered by two 1,200hp Wright Cyclone G-1820-G202A engines; 13 built...
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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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The American Wright Cyclone series twin-row radials powered American warplanes: the nearly-43 litre displacement, 14-cylinder Twin Cyclone powered the...
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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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flew an "American Airlines Airplane Development" Vultee, powered by a Wright Cyclone engine, non-stop from Los Angeles, California, to Floyd Bennett Field...
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31s were ordered by the French government but only one was built, the Wright Cyclone-powered HD.31 F-WFKU flew on the 27 January 1953. The company then produced...
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M-25, which was a licensed version of the Wright R-1820 Cyclone. Arkadiy Shvetsov re-engineered the Wright Cyclone design, through the OKB-19 design bureau...
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aircraft's performance.[citation needed] The TsKB-12 was designed for the Wright Cyclone SR-1820-F-3 9-cylinder radial engine (rated at 529 kW/710 hp); a license...
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Curtiss T-32 Condor II (redirect from Curtiss-Wright CW-4)
stabilizer and rudder, and retractable landing gear. It was powered by two Wright Cyclone radial engines. The first aircraft was flown on 30 January 1933 and...
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A-15 and O-45 designations using Pratt & Whitney engines instead of Wright Cyclones. A total of 348 of all versions were built. The largest users were...
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Perm Krai, Russian Soviet Republic, on 1 June 1934, to produce the Wright Cyclone-derived Shvetsov M-25.[citation needed] Arkadiy Shvetsov was named chief...
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R-1690 Hornet Pratt & Whitney R-2180-A Twin Hornet Comparable engines Wright Cyclone series Related lists List of aircraft engines Gunston 1986, pp. 109–113...
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Unrecovered Wright Cyclone radial engine at the TWA Flight 3 crash site (October 2007)...
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aircraft, F-BANT, first flew on 7 March 1945. It was powered by six Wright Cyclone engines of 1,600 horsepower (1,200 kW) each. Four aircraft were purchased...
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engine Gamma 2D Cargo version used by TWA, three built, 710 hp (529 kW) Wright Cyclone engine. One aircraft was converted into an "Experimental Overweather...
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Aircraft Company. It was a development of the Nakajima Kotobuki and Wright Cyclone. In Army use it was known as the Ha8. Hikari 1 820 hp (610 kW) Hikari...
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Varney Air Lines' pilots found the M-2 difficult to handle and the Wright Cyclone engine was plagued with frequent maintenance issues. The sole surviving...
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engine, he withdrew from the 1933 race. Flying a Northrop Gamma with a Wright Cyclone engine, he came in third in the 1935 race from Los Angeles to Cleveland...
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