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Old 20-01-2008, 10:54 PM   #5 (permalink)
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They're powered by a big thumping 28-cylinder, four row Pratt IIRC (insert grunts here!).
Would that be the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Corncob" as fitted to the Hughes HK-1 "Spuce Goose"? Awesome device, gave about 3500hp, the ultimate in piston engine design. The rear cylinders would have overheated of course, but in short-range racing aircraft you would get away with it.
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