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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 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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    Comparable engines Bristol Jupiter Continental R-670 Jacobs R-755 Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wright R-790 Whirlwind Related lists List of aircraft engines...
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    "Wright Whirlwind R-790-A (J-5) Radial 9 Engine | National Air and Space Museum". airandspace.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-08. "Wright J-6 Whirlwind". 2003-10-05...
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    powered M1 Abrams in the 1980s. Wright introduced the J-6 Whirlwind family in 1928 to replace the nine-cylinder R-790 series. The J-6 family included...
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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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    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-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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    forced Wright to purchase the Lawrance company in 1923 and build the J-1 itself. Wright's J-1 was the first engine in its nine-cylinder R-790 Whirlwind...
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    version. One 4-AT with Wright J-4 200-hp engines was built for the U.S. Army Air Corps as the C-3, and seven with Wright R-790-3 (235 hp) as C-3As. The...
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    ratings of 225-350 hp (168-261 kW). Wright introduced the J-6 Whirlwind family in 1928 to replace the nine-cylinder R-790 series. The J-6 family included...
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    Whitney R-1340 engine. It too failed to win any contracts. XO-17 (prototype) Consolidated PT-3 Conversion with a 225 hp (168 kW) Wright R-790-1 engine...
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    members of the Wright Whirlwind engine family. Wright introduced the J-6 Whirlwind family in 1928 to replace the nine-cylinder R-790 series. The J-6...
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    Wright R-790 Whirlwind (J-5) radial piston engine. 179 were built. XN3N-2 One prototype only (Bureau number 0265) powered by a 240 hp (180 kW) Wright...
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    mounting machine guns in that area, and upgrading to a 220 hp (160 kW) Wright R-790 Whirlwind with a supercharger. With the help of the supercharger, the...
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    installed. NS Up to 61 Model 73B1 delivered, powered by 220 hp (160 kW) Wright J-5/R-790 Whirlwind radials N2S Known colloquially as the "Yellow Peril" from...
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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 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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    uprated R-790-8 Wright Whirlwind J-5 engine of 220 hp (160 kW). The NY-3 aircraft were similar to the NY-2 but had 240 hp (180 kW) Wright R-760-94 engines...
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  • Two Capacity: 10 passengers or 1,800 pounds (820 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Wright R-790 Whirlwind Air-cooled 9-cylinder radial engines, 200 hp (150 kW) each...
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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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    middle of World War II. XPT-2 one PT-1 airframe with a 220 hp (160 kW) Wright J-5 (R-790) radial engine, wingspan 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m), length 28 ft 4 in (8...
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    Wasp Major – Complete Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major – Cutaway Westinghouse J34 Wright R-790 Whirlwind Wright R-795-11 (J-6) Whirlwind List of aerospace...
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    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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    number 1), 221 built, 180 hp (134 kW) Wright-Hispano E (V-720) engine XPT-2 PT-1 with 225 hp (168 kW) Wright R-790 (J-5) engine, wingspan 34 ft 7 in (10...
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    upper wings at about 55% span. It was powered by two 150 kW (200 hp) Wright R-790 Whirlwind nine cylinder radial engines, mounted in streamlined cowlings...
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    of engines including the newer nine cylinder, 200–220 hp (150–160 kW) Wright R-790 Whirlwind and the old but cheap, water-cooled Hispano A and B. In 1929...
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    Universal were not identical). Powered by the newly developed, air-cooled Wright R-790 Whirlwind radial engine which proved to be reliable, the Universal became...
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    with a gross weight of 10,395 pounds (4,715 kg), re-engined with three Wright R-790 motors producing 220 horsepower (160 kW) each. A C-2 variant nicknamed...
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    Alvis Leonides Major Comparable engines Lycoming R-680 Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior Wright R-790 Whirlwind Related lists List of aircraft engines...
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