Bizarre Powerplants

7700 cubic inches of aircraft engine goodness

At the end of World War Two the aircraft engine manufacturers took a bigger is better attitude towards design. Managing to create two running aircraft engines with five thousand horsepower each. Of course to produce that with a piston engine takes a large amount of displacement.  How about a nice little 127 liter engine for the new bomber of the moment.

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Giant F*ck-Off Aircraft

A Flying Soviet Fortress

This is the Kalinin K-7. It is big. How big? It was the largest propeller-driven plane prior to the jet age. Continue reading A Flying Soviet Fortress