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Post by harvard1041 on Nov 20, 2008 15:17:23 GMT 12
How about a thread on 'old engines' - great (great) thread running as Al works on the Bristol Freighter & Hercules at Omaka ....and the SE5a & Wright-Martin Hisso engines at Masterton...but how about we try and dig out photos of the engines - with a Kiwi connection ? Here's a couple to get things going. 80HP Le Rhone -Pup, Avro504 etc R-1340 - Harvard ] Allison V-1710-39 - P-40E (& P-51A) Hisso - SE5-Spad etc ..lot of petrol-heads out there..
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 20, 2008 16:49:25 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 20, 2008 20:20:42 GMT 12
This'd make you spit, from another aviation Forum:
"In the 1930s, there was an auto salvage yard in New York City that had piles of crates of new, unused liberty engines, bought at the surplus auctions. My father, (as a lad) used to watch them being uncrated, hoisted by a crane, and dropped onto a large slab of steel. Once shattered, a crew of workers would scurry onto the slab and sort and divide the bits for metal salvage. Another company in New Jersey, the Vimalert Co. had a shipping warehouse at the freighter port docks, where they converted stacks of crates of WWI surplus Liberties for marine (boat) conversions with trasnimssions and other changes. They also had high stacks of crated rotary LeRhone and Gnome engines. Since these "obsolete" rotary engines were only bringing $15-$25 each, new in the crate, it was decided to stack them at the end of the dock and have a machine push them all off, into the water. One might assume they are still there, in the shallow, salt water, highly polluted with all kinds of chemicals from that industrial area."
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Post by alanw on Nov 20, 2008 21:38:42 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 20, 2008 21:47:44 GMT 12
One of the Walsh Brothers' engines is in the Air Force Museum, I think it's one they built themselves.
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Post by alanw on Nov 20, 2008 23:11:09 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 20, 2008 23:22:46 GMT 12
I know, it's my website.
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Post by Poohbah on Nov 21, 2008 8:35:48 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 21, 2008 12:23:45 GMT 12
One of the Walsh Brothers' engines is in the Air Force Museum, I think it's one they built themselves. I don't think that the Walshes were into engine building. Their Howard Wright was certainly imported with an engine (60hp British ENV was apparently standard for this aircraft)) as part of the kitset. Their flying boats used Curtiss and Hall-Scott engines.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 21, 2008 21:30:01 GMT 12
Cheers Peter, I wasn't sure on that point. I was trying to recall the label which was about two and a half years ago when I read it.
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Post by Radialicious on Nov 24, 2008 22:04:14 GMT 12
My wee beauty!!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 24, 2008 23:12:35 GMT 12
All those gear wheels that operate the cranks & stuff for the sleeve valves in Bristol Perseus, Hercules and Centaurus engines really amazes me. It must be a mission and a half to get all the timing right when one of those engines is assembled from a heap of parts following an overhaul.
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Post by planeimages on Nov 25, 2008 0:11:16 GMT 12
The moving radial reminds me of a girl I once knew.
Oh, what a pity about those Omegas.
I believe there is one at Shuttleworth but only in a mock workshop display.
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