Vintage 1945 film of Chrysler inline liquid cooled 16 cylinder engine in a prototype P47 fighter. The development was too late in the war to be adopted for use.
Thanks for sharing that fascinating video, I’ve seen still photos of that aircraft but never video, excellent!
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about a new animated graphic analysis of the Battle of Midway, first from the Japanese point of view, then from the USA perspective. These 3 videos explained the movement of ships and planes FAR BETTER than anything I had read or seen before.
about a new animated graphic analysis of the Battle of Midway, first from the Japanese point of view, then from the USA perspective. These 3 videos explained the movement of ships and planes FAR BETTER than anything I had read or seen before.
I never heard of this before - the video calls the motor a straight 16, but it's a V-16. I know some retired Chrysler guys that did some work on the further development of this engine.
Here's a quote from earlier today:
This engine gave us our early expertise with the Hemi. They put their knowledge into the early 331 Hemi.
I saw this engine in the Walter P Chrysler Museum in 2011. It was an inverted V-16. I wonder where it is now, since the museum closed?
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If you look at a cutaway of this engine, and you're looking at a cutaway of the 1951 New Yorker engine, you'd think they were brothers, except these were upside down, maybe so they could mount a couple of cannons in the nose. The Messerschmitts had nose cannons, and they were also an inverted V.
I remember seeing and reading about another Chrysler experimental piston driven aircraft X24 that was a 24 cylinder in a X format with 6 cylinders on each bank, it was develop in the same time frame also, 1943 to early 1945. I think it was air cooled, not liquid cooled I don't know if they made it into a airframe or not, I seem to remember a comment on cooling being a issue with it It would be nice to see that article again to compare it to this engine, if someone else who is a lot better on retrieving data and article like this than me
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I remember seeing and reading about another Chrysler experimental piston driven aircraft X24 that was a 24 cylinder in a X format with 6 cylinders on each bank, it was develop in the same time frame also, 1943 to early 1945. I think it was air cooled, not liquid cooled I don't know if they made it into a airframe or not, I seem to remember a comment on cooling being a issue with it It would be nice to see that article again to compare it to this engine, if someone else who is a lot better on retrieving data and article like this than me
Thanks for the help I'm sure it was a Chrysler made X24 experimental engine, maybe it was in one of the Petersen publication magazines like Car Craft or Motor Trend that I saw it in My R&D skills can use some help on data retrieval and I appreciate those that are good at it like you
Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)
