100 Years of Big Aircraft Engines And Their Starting Up

[@georgesever4347]

There is nothing like the sound of a 28 cylinder radial engine! Beauty and fine engineering!

[@silverwiskers7371]

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE and very informative, thank God we have people keeping this historical priceless engines running for the rest of us to admire and appreciate relics from the past, thanx

[@CarNewsTV]

gene Pohlemann + Oh thank you very much for your kind words ! We really appreciate it:) Have a nice day and much health !

[@bigfish7493]

Having opened up flatHeads, Overheads, F-heads, etc since very young my impressions of the science demonstrated by each design soundly points to the concepts and principles of engineering that has made such a "garden" of kinetic power plants all remarkably different. In short, amazing. These designs will never become "old". They are being adapted into new concepts but remain anchored in the original languages of energy conversion. Each engine is really its own language in response to efficient power to weight ratios.

[@roberttroxell7823]

"just amazing" the engineering that went into building any, of these engines. especially the ones with the multiple cylinders.

[@vladimirvlad2563]

The last one.I want it in my living room.

[@papasteve215]

I worked on many R-2800 Pratt and Whitney engines back in the early 70’s. T-28’s, C-123’s, C-54’s. They were a real workhorse throughout the 50’s through the 70’s. I understand that even C-47’s are being retrofitted with 2800’s now.

[@packard5682]

The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 sounds like a high performance auto engine! Doesn't sound like the other aircraft engines.

[@OJB42]

Wow, those big radials are mighty beasts! Thanks for the video.

[@jeffjames4064]

No sounds except the orchestra of exhaust . Thank you. A bunch of old farts (like me) thrilling and chilling.

[@blueshowlar]

Hi Jeff, I'm 67 and loved it loud too. Nice to say hello

[@jeffjames4064]

@blues howler Likewise 😁

[@datoneslav6902]

not only old farts love old planes and engines ya know :)

[@jeffjames4064]

@clay ocean You're a old fart in training. Don't worry, the qualifying requirements are pretty low.

[@datoneslav6902]

@@jeffjames4064 haha, thank you

[@corrieshepard9620]

That R-4360 is mental.

[@margaretroselle8610]

All these wonderful engines are music to my ears......thank you!

[@CarNewsTV]

Margaret Roselle+ :) Have a nice day !

[@progmetalfan4270]

I’m amazed you didn’t throw a RR Merlin engine into this video, a truly iconic thing. The Napier Sabre would have been cool to see too

[@MarsFKA]

No Sabres running - yet...

[@lsswappedcessna]

The Packard V-1650 is basically the same thing as the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The V-1650 was built by Packard under lease from RR.

[@MarsFKA]

@@lsswappedcessna Packard called their version the Merlin, because it was.

[@lsswappedcessna]

@@MarsFKA Yeah pretty much. Pretty sure "V-1650" is the engine's classification, V, because it's a V-shaped block, and 1650 because it's ~1650ci.

[@MarsFKA]

@@lsswappedcessna Its classification is the Merlin, and always has been.

[@gregsmith1115]

Back when unlimited hydroplane racing was cool, the noise of Allison and Rolls Merlin V12's ruled!

[@Backyardmech1]

5:20 I remember learning with the Allison 250D when I got my A&P. Even running one up on the test stand. Pretty awesome to seeing flames coming out the exhaust when the burner can lights off.

[@randybarnhill3098]

True, but to actually be the person making those flames come out the exhaust. Now that's thrilling! Naval Aviation, 14 yrs. F-14A jet engine and fuel systems mechanic. Low power qualified. High power qualified. Out at sea, aboard the carrier, slamming both engines into zone 5 afterburner. That's impressive!

[@garyr7027]

That last one was awesome looking. I like how the blades look like they're barely turning, or just sitting still. It's like magic cause it's still running.

[@GrowthCurveMarketing]

The 4360 is such a BEAST.

[@stephensowell9578]

Those cut-away jets are incredible. One critique: the Bristol Centaurus is a sleeve valve engine, i.e., it does not have valve covers. The picture shows a two-bank, 18-cylinder radial, but it is not a Bristol. The Bristol head was smooth and flat, with only one spark plug sticking out.

[@robertlafnear4865]

This has to be one of the best videos for aviators on KZbin... BIG THAK YOU.

[@dionvaletta]

Love the Ranger SGV- 770 V-12 whoosh sound

[@BerlinghoffRasmussen]

That Le Rhone is a trip. The whole engine spins like the prop. I've never seen that.

[@waynepurcell6058]

That's why they were called "rotary engines". Literally it means spinning engine, not something spinning INSIDE the engine, but literally rotating ENGINE.

[@rosiehawtrey]

Be happy you weren't sitting behind it. Has a constant loss oil system using castor oil. *That* castor oil. Pilots had the constant squits - not to mention the torque. A Camel will turn right 4 times faster than it turns left, because a right turn goes with the engine torque. 110/130hp. My old Renault Safrane 2.2vi - 138hp. A German company managed to design a counter rotating rotary - fixed crankcase geared rotating cylinders - but very complex and had a habit of blowing up.

[@musicforaarre]

I especially loved to see the Allison T63 Turboshaft; N I C E !!! What a rush to see it run ! Aarre Peltomaa

[@TheLOD2010]

You miss the howle German technology. For example DB605 from which the US tought it is a radial engine but it is a inverted V12 with up to 2150PS and the fact that the first flyable plane with an jet engine was a German one (Messerschmitt). The DB605 was using a compressor long before some guys in the US used one in a plane and a fule injection system which allowed it to use NOS as boost.

[@jpooch00]

Ah, the P&W 4360. Basically a gigantic watch made of steel and aluminum that put out 3500+ HP! Incredible!

[@williamc.1198]

great engine! powered the B-36, KC-97, B-50, C-124 and C-119. My Father-in-Law crewed B-36s and KC-97s.

[@Wildlifesupernannyfan]

Great engines!!!! Don't get blown over by the jet engine!!

[@SSN515]

That thing at 5:17 is far superior to my Sears Weedeater for yard work!

[@clearcreek69]

pest control too

[@Nlangkirby135]

0:17 I had the pleasure of sitting on the pilot's seat of this Wright flyer replica.

[@michaelmoore234]

Beautiful engine's .

[@uncledeadlythefirst]

0:37 Harrison Ford heading out to crash his plane?

[@vieroboy]

Yeah that Wright Flyer engine was HUGE.......

[@MagnetOnlyMotors]

3:53 also used for making smoke screens.

[@Xcieg]

LT. Dan, you got new wings.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

0:16 Amazing that it's still around and flying after all these years. Must have been pretty well built!

[@gertnood]

You think that's the original, do you?

[@busman7228]

Maybe maybe not. You seem to be the expert, will you tell us?

[@variegatus4674]

@@gertnood definitely won't be the original, but things like that were built to last unlike the stuff we get today. "Lasts until warranty expires"

[@radioguy1620]

thanks for posting some great shots here, here in CT that jet at the 5 minute mark would sure come in handy cleanin up the leaves.

[@ItsMeScareCro]

That last one... "Dang" - Joe Dirt

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

The Wright Flyer engine was not an opposed engine, it was an inline engine.

[@wildcoyote34]

I think they are using that term because the flyer engine was horizontal and not vertically oriented

[@daBuySticker]

nice aeroplane machine

[@youzzername]

The corn cob sounds amazing.

[@gapratt4955]

Want to hear more corn cob music? Find the clip of B 36 start up from the movie Strategic air command.

[@kennethgraham3661]

That is totally awesome! I couldn't imagine the sound levels around them beasties

[@davesmith9325]

I love the way at 6:00 the Allison turboshaft museum cutaway sounds like a helicopter (you can hear the rotors it hasn't got 😉

[@BigDaddy-yp4mi]

I thought I was the only one who recognized that! Amazing catch, sir!

[@clearcreek69]

I noticed that also

[@greenturtlgaming2554]

I thought that was the sound of the turbine blades.

[@Davysprocket213]

I recognize the motorcycle shop in Napa Valley, where they ran the P&W R-4360. I would love to have been there for that.

[@routmaster38]

When I was an apprentice at A,V,Roe Woodford ,Cheshire in the fifties we rebuilt an Avroe 504 K fitted with a Le Rhone rotary engine.This one had a badly scored cylinder liner but OK,d for a few hours use.After lots of sweat pulling the prop it started with clouds of smoke and at low revs the misfire on that cylinder could be seen and heard.In the event the aircraft took off on a very short run assisted by two lads holding the lower wing tips.I believe its in the Shuttleworth museum now!

[@routmaster38]

This engine had original Mica spark plugs and bare brass HT leads stretched from the crankcase pick up ring.

[@สุทัศน์พึ่งวิทย์-ฆ2ธ]

Woow...มันสวย งาม และ ทรงพลัง สุดยอด ..love u fc 2020

[@perception-reception]

Great video

[@kevinsellsit5584]

Nice collection of some rare engines and a couple I've not even seen in museums.

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!... 360

[@levtrefelov7933]

Отличный ролик!

[@Herman6507]

Did I really miss the DB 605??

[@phillippowell3847]

whilst I'm willing to admit that Packard made the best Merlin engines i would have expected to see more engines from the UK than one,

[@rhino159]

Awesome

[@lgf1978]

You have missed one of the most important and iconic engines of WWII; the RR merlin

[@spannaspinna]

Loosely repped by the Allison Merlin

[@wingmanjim6]

@@spannaspinna Allison Merlin ? NO !

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

No Daimler-Benz DB-605 either, the best piston aero engines of WW2.

[@kennethjanczak4900]

beautifull engines Thanks for taking the time to make the video and share it

Good stuff!

[@haraldpettersen3649]

Great engine and video.

[@poulehansenhansen9826]

Super fine video. Tell history, great to see. Thanks for opload.

[@stevewhalen6973]

Thanks!

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you Steve :) We really appreciate it !

[@Robochop-vz3qm]

Brilliant

[@jordyboy321]

Man the Bristol centaurus is one of the best engines ever made

[@Blackscorpion1963]

2:30 love this 1940 Allison V-1710 12cyl sounds beautiful, and an excellent performing engine in the P-38 Lightning - of course there was 2 of these engines powering it.

[@DeepseaSteve]

Can’t believe you didn’t include the Merlin. Only one of the most successful aircraft engines ever manufactured

[@gapratt4955]

Merlin and the Griffon!

[@DeepseaSteve]

G A Pratt griffon was a great engine also but was really a further development of the Merlin

[@wombat3024]

@@DeepseaSteve Griffon was a development of the older R type racing engine, not the Merlin. Also 35 litres versus 27 for the Merlin.

[@henrycomputer1403]

Yes. And what about the r2800

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

I love a nice pair of bristols

[@chidambaramr7929]

Super collections

[@robertlafnear4865]

I see you have a small portable fire suppression set up.... good ! A wee bit better for total safety is a 1500 gal. above ground tank with a small diesel H.P. fire pump, a sprinkler system trenched in a 100 ft out and all around the house...... thats what we did and I rest well knowing I can surpress a wind blown ground fire. Just an FYI from the Oregon Forest home site of our house... P.S. I have a 100ft. of 1 1/2" fire hose I can lay out also alone with a 250 gal. portable tank & pump. Thanks Trent and we need some more flying vids.

[@haroldasraz]

I love the idea of sticking an airplane engine into a sports car.

[@mhmadgenious]

It wouldn't work all that well only because airplane engines run at a considerably lower compression which is why they sounds like they do

[@shashanklungeli9468]

Even better if a motorcycle or a trike instead of a sports car😂😂

[@ryanm.191]

Search for a car called the Brutus. It has the engine of a bf109 in it. A plane engine though has a lot less HP than a car engine as they move through something a lot more fluid and don’t have the weight of the machine acting on a road surface which causes so much drag

[@LosPeregrinos51]

@@mhmadgenious Not counting the "special" land speed models like the British Railton (two Napier engines) or the American White Triplex (THREE Liberty engines) then?

[@CrpMag]

Fantastic video!

[@nicolaisen1]

Outright ass kicking!

[@donizetesilva1088]

Boa tarde meu amigo Donizete Bragança Paulista SP

[@rolandocrisostomo2003]

Thank you.

[@Doggystyle944]

that display modal at the end was amazing

[@gdholmfirth]

I used to work on the R-4360 in C-124s. The L-1 mag fires the left-hand plug in the B and D rows.

[@misasavic5073]

The very first engine that fly Atlantic was Rolls Royce Eagle VIII ,V 12 engine.On Vickers Vimy airplane,from Newfoundland to Ireland,in 1919.

[@mredwardward]

You are correct that the first NON-STOP flight was powered by Rolls-Royces but the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic was the Liberty powered Curtiss NC-4. It took 10 days and 22 hours to get from Newfoundland to Lisbon with a protracted stop in the Azores with mechanical trouble, eventually arriving on the 27th May 1919. Nonetheless this was the first aircraft of any kind to cross the Atlantic by air. Alcock and Brown achieved their rather more impressive feat in June.

[@squeaksvids5886]

Why no Merlin? Possibly the most successful piston engine ever.

[@MIXTAB1]

Sooooooo many components must be working in absolutely perfect unison for a plane to fly… it blows my mind how truly few accidents there are Aviation is a miracle

[@treypeters1087]

I love how the curtiss is on a grill

[@eliasnuno4039]

5:50 that was awesome

[@dnfrank1]

Astonishingly! What sparked the first engine? Incredible what human beings can do.

[@ricardopuchalski6929]

why will it be q when we hear the sound of the activation of these engines it gives us the chills it is like listening to good music

[@pieterpretorius1014]

its a symphony of pistons from a long gone era

[@garysarratt1]

Like... METAL?

[@davidbrugman2171]

How cool! 👍

[@Danger_mouse]

2:15 Ranger engine with its period correct Holley carb fitted 😁✌️

[@abhrajitchatterjee7324]

These engines are beasts totally wow

[@夏目次郎-g8l]

スゴイエンジンですね。

[@ziggy2shus624]

No mention that the Wright Flyer 1903 engine was made by their bicycle mechanic Charlie Taylor. Taylor built the engine in about 6 weeks, just using a lathe and drill press and sketches on a note pad. Charlie Taylor was given almost no credit for developing the engine by the very self centered Wright Bros. The Wright Flyer without an engine is just another glider.

[@ninozz]

True, but remember a lot people made engine that time but only one put in glider and flew.

[@AndyRoo312]

@@ninozz many others built gliders but didn't have a suitable engine. The engine was the key to making the Wright Flyer successful so Charlie Taylor deserves just as much credit as the Wright Brothers.

[@RjBrown-ks5tz]

This is amazing but when were valve covers invented?

[@johnwood6857]

Great video, wonderfull sounds.

[@CarNewsTV]

John Wood + Thank you John :)

[@peekaboo4390]

Anyone miss the Merlin here?

[@josephrapoza6453]

Ok sounds good lets fly it...

[@benstorer3682]

3:19 I love the bendy propellers.

[@knudknollard3309]

Are you joking? It's a strobing effect of the camera of course. Sometimes the prop appears stationary or even reverses - that's when the frame rate is close to the blade pass rate. Also, the image sensor is raster scanned rather than reading all pixels simultaneously. By the time it's completed the scan, the prop has rotated a fair bit, making it appear distorted.

[@HapliodHandler]

I can smell those engines through my screen

[@Showza83]

I thought the guy in the Anzani video was going to roll away in that rig!

[@dougc190]

that last Alison turboprop thoughy the batmobile was getting ready to go

[@guilhermepanico5835]

This is like music for my ears

[@NathanChisholm041]

Awesome stuff Cheers..

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you :)

[@FreeIreland]

Very cool.

[@gustavopinhidalgo6212]

Great !

[@Trainedn00bdotcom]

The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 in the thumbnail is all ready to go as is much of the inventory at the Airzoo's east wing

[@williamhogg7830]

Thank you so very much. This kind of stuff really turns me on.

[@jimmunsw4795]

Awesome 👍👍👍 Greatly Interesting

[@shanecreel3867]

I love the Holley carburetor on the Ranger V-12.

[@TwoLotus2]

2 Holleys!

[@SKEptic-mg2dd]

You really think the Ranger SCV-770 V-12 (2:10) is inverted?

[@박대영-y5j]

Good😍😍😍

[@leosypher9993]

that P&W R-4360 sounds really nice with an exhaust on it, all the other radials I've heard just sound like a bunch of strait piped lawn mowers that all run really bad

[@vophatechnicus]

No Double Wasp, Rolls Royce Merlin, DB601(605,610,...), BMW 801, Jumo 211, Bristol Hercules, Bristol Centaurus, Klimow M-105, Napier Sabre, Wright Cyclone.. There are so many good Aircraft Engiens, especially around WW2 era... :(