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a58r(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: Ultralight Callsign aka C-54

The engines on the C-54 were not the Corn Cobs...They were P&W 4360-9  

28 cyl, 4 rows of 7 cyls. Abt 3000hp. Tried on late F4U Corsairs,  

WWII. Been there.

regards,

Bob N.    FireFly 070 Old Kolb

http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/



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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: Ultralight Callsign aka C-54

Hi Bob



  1945 Pratt & Whitney R4360 - 3800 hp – 28-cylinder radial. (AKA the 

Corncob ) 



 The Pratt and Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major was a large radial piston

 aircraft engine designed and built during WWII. It was the last of the

  Wasp family and the culmination of its maker’s piston engine 

technology,

  but the war was over before it could power airplanes into combat. It 

did,

  however, power the last generation of large, piston-engined planes 

before

  the jet engine and turboprop took over. This engine was commonly  

nicknamed "the Corncob".



 I stand corrected:

  The C-54 used the P&W R-2000-2SD-13G Twin Wasp Radial..  I guess thats 

 1/2 a Corncob 



  Maybe I was thinking of the C-124.... It had to use the Corcob as fat 

as it was  hahahaha

  Ya have to understand I was a whopping 4 years old back when those 

things were in use...

  I just assumed all Large P/W Radial that were Stacked like that were 

refered to as Corncobs.. 

 BTW

 I understand they ran through Oil like a 2 stroke  hahahahahaha



 Mark Vaughn



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