Aircraft engine Pratt and Whitney P-1830 Twin Wasp

Aircraft engine Pratt and Whitney P-1830 Twin Wasp, USA. Developed in 1932. it is a two-row, 14-cylinder, air-cooled radial design with seven cylinders on a row.

A total of 173,618 R-1830 engines were built, and from their use in two of the most-produced aircraft ever built, the four-engined B-24 heavy bomber and twin-engined DC-3 transport, more Twin Wasps may have been built than any other aviation piston engine in history. Weight – 567 kg. Power – 1200 hp.

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