After several cranking attempts, this radial engine finally lit off. Filmed at the 2013 California Capital Airshow. Pratt & Whitney R-4360. HD Reupload from the earlier video.
Glad to hear the actual sound if this beast without a prop screaming in your ear
@phased-arraych.9150
Жыл бұрын
The peak of radial engine design. It’s like a living mechanical organism.
@mayhemmike1789
2 жыл бұрын
This is the cleanest & smoothest I've ever seen a 4360 run! Like every single cylinder is firing properly 😏😏😏
@meonksschannel
2 жыл бұрын
Keren
@paulmorissette5863
2 жыл бұрын
Really? Black smoke and missing? I had the chance to listen to a B-29 at an air show. Those engines were spot on.
@iamra_n3189
2 жыл бұрын
And what a fantastic bark and growl she howls!
@chrishayes5755
2 жыл бұрын
back in my day the 4360 used to run like a butter over a smooth biscuit. you little whippersnappers don't know nothing about buttered biscuits.
@davelowets
Жыл бұрын
@@paulmorissette5863 That could easily be cured by the mixture lever.
@georgegabriel7766
2 жыл бұрын
The fact that this was designed using pen and paper (no computers back then) makes it even more impressive.
@spaceace1006
2 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed! It took some brilliant minds! Can't say much more than that!!
@2caver
2 жыл бұрын
Slide rules were early computers.
@georgegabriel7766
2 жыл бұрын
@@2caver yea right...
@Admiral45-10
2 жыл бұрын
Today engineers would use AutoCAD. It makes thing much easier - in time it would take me to draw maybe two single thimbles, I drew entire car's body with two wheel axis.
@andreweppink4498
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah you're sure right. E.g. Hoover Dam, large vessels, everything was designed that way. All with slipstix etc.
@pootmahgoots8482
Жыл бұрын
Woo buddy. That first roar as she lights off is pure insanity. I love it!
@johncunningham4820
2 жыл бұрын
That is One CLEAN RUNNING Corncob . Awesome bit of Kit . Sounds really GOOD which is not usual for Radials .
@Greameable
2 жыл бұрын
"Oh no he's a friendly dog" The dog : 0:13
@ericrawson2909
Жыл бұрын
Just love that sound. Fantastic.
@tomcline5631
2 жыл бұрын
Just sounds so friggin tough!!! Like the baddest big block hot rod motor out there!!!
@Tina-di4lx
2 жыл бұрын
Wow. Love the roar. Beautiful.
@mountainflyhigh
2 жыл бұрын
Thought they weren't meant to be run without a prop or equivalent weight flywheel.
@ejkk9513
2 жыл бұрын
They can run. They will quickly overheat as this is an air cooled engine that struggled with cooling at the best of times. That's why it was shut down so quickly. It has nothing to do with balance. This engine is impressive just in its sheer size... but they had massive engineering challenges. It was so hard to cool all four rows evenly. The staggered rows allowed the air to flow through the fins but only in cool air with a massive amount of air being moved from the propeller through baffles.
@ejkk9513
2 жыл бұрын
@Karl with a K Well the Boeing 377 had 4 of these engines and they were notoriously unreliable. They would frequently over-heat and catch fire in the air sometimes after only 100 miles of travel! They would have to initiate forced emergency landings quite often. They were so unprofitable that the airlines needed government assistance to keep these engines running. I'm sure if you flew these engines in the north pole... it might work. That's not realistic though. It was a valiant effort to make a massive, air-cooled piston engine that made 3-4 thousand horsepower. It came at the wrong time and desperately needed water-cooling. Pratt and Whitney didn't want to do that because this shares many components with the entire Wasp family and they wanted to make it cheap without significantly changing the overall design.
@punisher3607
Жыл бұрын
Prop is for cooling
@midnight_.v
3 ай бұрын
Nobody 0:13 chihuahuas when your pizza is delivered
@datgamerboy123
Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely freaking WILD
@ejkk9513
2 жыл бұрын
Impressive they designed this in the 40s. The engine was pretty much obsolete when it came out in the mid 40's and had so many problems with cooling. I feel the sleeve valve engines from England were much more impressive... but this is cool too.
@robertborchert932
2 жыл бұрын
Corncob! Lovely beast.
@billmorris2613
2 жыл бұрын
FYI: Aircraft engines should not be started without at least having a club prop installed on it. The momentary fire coming out of the exhaust is a pretty normal event. Probably raw fuel from being primed.
@shawnfox3104
2 жыл бұрын
My late father, Clayton Fox served in the Air Force during the Korean war, stationed at Mather AFB in Sacramento. He became crew chief on the fleet of B50's stationed there, used mainly for bomber pilot training. He spoke many years about keeping four of these going reliably per plane, and the challenges with parts availability and pilot ineptitude. If I'm not mistaken, this was the last prop driven bomber used by the air force?
@johndallman2692
2 жыл бұрын
The Skyraider was a single-seat piston-engine attack aircraft that served until 1973. In multi-engine piston bombers, the Douglas A-26 Invader seems to have served later than the B-50, to the "late 1960s with active-duty special-operations TAC units..."
@NPD-Quy
Жыл бұрын
B35
@iamra_n3189
2 жыл бұрын
What a monster!
@disectormusic
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the hulk.
@robclarke1572
2 жыл бұрын
Great balls of fire, guess I thought it needed a prop to store a little inertia. Is this 87 or 130 octane?
@billmorris2613
2 жыл бұрын
Good evening to all from SE Louisiana 29 Apr 22.
@kiwitrainguy
9 ай бұрын
My 64th birthday!
@piperg6179
Жыл бұрын
It’s really just a 28 cylinder Briggs and Stratton Herschel Smith said it was reliable in fight through shut down but usually needed repair at startup.
@bigdawg2246
3 жыл бұрын
man this thing sounds angry
@donaldparlett5789
2 жыл бұрын
The corn cob, what a beast
@warren4110
2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know it even had a nickname. Very apt!!
@jasondavidson6925
Жыл бұрын
The sound reminds me of a very angry dragster V8
@mattlf9120
2 ай бұрын
Not even close 😂
@ReHEZ
Жыл бұрын
The start up sounds like one of the rocket league car engines. I wonder if they got the sound sample from this engine.
@spaceace1006
2 жыл бұрын
Here is one incredibly complex engine! This Monster here and the RR\Packard Merlin were\are some badass Piston Pumpers!!!!
@johncunningham4820
2 жыл бұрын
Rolls Royce Merlin . Built , under Licence , by Packard for the American " Market " . Don't try to steal ownership of that .
@vascoiriondo6609
2 жыл бұрын
@@johncunningham4820 calm down kid, we all know that the merlin engine is a rolls royce patent
@royshashibrock3990
2 жыл бұрын
Please provide air cooling for the engine (a prop or whatever).
@decombsi
2 жыл бұрын
For what looks like a junkyard dog it runs really good.
@swatz85
Жыл бұрын
how does it air cooler this radial stationary engine?
@cesarfelipe7138
2 жыл бұрын
This is the most evil sounding engine I've ever heard. Holy f*ck :DDDD
@kensilver3959
2 жыл бұрын
Look how many cylinders it has and it's massive size but it has less plumbing that a modern day 4 cylinder LOL
@ericwilson2585
4 ай бұрын
Now that's cool....
@stanhathcoat920
2 жыл бұрын
Sure would've liked to have seen a prop on that great engine!
@MrFlextor
2 жыл бұрын
Sir, why do you have the motor from my Audi on this funny trailer? 😉
@Tina-di4lx
2 жыл бұрын
Cool
@bertg.6056
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't see a fire. Did a fuel line break and was edited out?
@meonksschannel
2 жыл бұрын
👍
@meonksschannel
2 жыл бұрын
👍
@bigal1863
2 жыл бұрын
Satisfying...I need a cigarette
@richceglinski7543
2 жыл бұрын
Well there went that 2 gallons of gas.
@MWUSA
2 жыл бұрын
Does it do anything but make noise
@kiwitrainguy
9 ай бұрын
Yes, it also makes smoke and flames.😋😛
@raafau
2 жыл бұрын
Does it met euro-6? Lol
@P61guy61
2 жыл бұрын
Niceeeee
@brianw612
2 жыл бұрын
Not a good idea to run it for long without a prop or fan.
@kakswell
2 жыл бұрын
would not hurt it one single bit
@thefirstmissinglink
2 жыл бұрын
🤣 ya think 🤔
@agcatdriver
2 жыл бұрын
@@kakswell yeah, actually it will.
@kakswell
2 жыл бұрын
@@agcatdriver your allowed to be wrong , have a good day
@frontagulus
2 жыл бұрын
He didn't, Brian
@stevenlangdon-griffiths293
2 жыл бұрын
What aircraft would use this engine?
@Baard2000
2 жыл бұрын
Every aircraft would like that.......😁 What a roar !!!
@laurencethornblade8357
2 жыл бұрын
I believe the B-36 used them. I think also one of the superprop P-47s used them as well.
@stevenlangdon-griffiths293
2 жыл бұрын
@@laurencethornblade8357 thank you for your kind reply
@TheHawk--oe8iq
2 жыл бұрын
@@laurencethornblade8357 The P-47 used a P&W Double Wasp. Not the R4360. Your "superprop" was just a prop upgrade, also known as a "paddle prop."
@laurencethornblade8357
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheHawk--oe8iq I was thinking of XP-72
@Visionery1
2 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't this make a plane incredibly nose-heavy?
@davecrupel2817
2 жыл бұрын
Not if the plane is designed for an engine of it's size and weight. A fairly large single engine overall. A long wide fuselage & empennage, wide, high-chord wings, biiig control surfaces in terms of surface area. And plenty of stuff to weigh down the rear of the aircraft. (Rear relative to the wings)
@craigpennington1251
2 жыл бұрын
That engine needs an aircraft.
@bparkerfool
2 жыл бұрын
I wa t to put this on my boat lol
@BWADaniel
2 жыл бұрын
Too much going on for me to trust such an engine with my life.
@MarcABrown-tt1fp
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget that the actual engine in most corsairs the R-2800 were half the cylinder count and a 1/3 smaller.
@miles1571
Жыл бұрын
great, now put it in a miata
@renatomelhoranca953
2 жыл бұрын
Without the prop is way easier...
@ionizedbeam8089
2 жыл бұрын
the prop wont provide much resistance at idle?
@guidelinesR4pooCz
Жыл бұрын
Yes but without prop engine cannot cool itself. No cooling = no good.
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