The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the Japanese mainland. When it comes to military aircraft manufacturing, Boeing is ...

Beechcraft, a renowned name in general aviation, is synonymous with engineering excellence and innovation. Among its wide ...

Ultimately, Canadair decided the tried and true Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial engine was the perfect powerplant for the world's first purpose-built water bomber.

By 1930, its first engines, the Wasp and Hornet had set many world records. Certificated 1n 1933, the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-1830 was a two-row radial that delivered up to 1,007 kW (1,350 shp), ...

The F8F-1 Bearcat was powered by a 2,100 horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34W Double Wasp radial piston engine, and was Grumman's last piston-engine aircraft. Reaching speeds of over 370 mph with ...

Other pre-WWII Beech 18s were also powered by Jacobs R-915 radial engines, but the most common type of engine used on Beech 18s would be the 450 hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior radial engine.

Pratt & Whitney initiated design and development of the R-2800 Double Wasp in 1936, and first displayed it in 1939 ... When introduced, it produced the greatest output at altitude of any engine in the ...

PEOPLE DOMESTICATED sheep and cattle, wheat and maize. Wasps domesticated viruses. And, just as domesticating other species helped human populations explode, so viral domestication assisted an ...

The aircraft that American felt was best-suited for the job was the Convair CV-240, which actually got its name from its configuration—two radial engines capable of carrying 40 passengers ...

IT is a low-key intuition, not spiteful or malicious, but pervasive: in the minds of most Americans the incoming Nixon Administration seems to represent the comeback of the Wasp: the white Anglo ...

The Toyota Motor Corporation has been one of the most important players in the automotive industry for over seven decades. During that time, it established itself as a manufacturer of reliable and ...