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  2. Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior - Wikipedia

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    Pratt & Whitney developed the R-985 Wasp Junior as a smaller version of the R-1340 Wasp to compete in the market for medium-sized aircraft engines. Like its larger brother, the Wasp Junior was an air-cooled, nine-cylinder radial, with its power boosted by a gear-driven single-speed centrifugal type supercharger.

  3. Pratt & Whitney Wasp series - Wikipedia

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    The Pratt & Whitney Wasp was the civilian name of a family of air-cooled radial piston engines developed in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. [1]The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company (P&W) was founded in 1925 by Frederick B. Rentschler, who had previously been the President of Wright Aeronautical.

  4. Williams F107 - Wikipedia

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    The Williams F107 (company designation WR19) is a small turbofan engine made by Williams International. The F107 was designed to propel cruise missiles . It has been used as the powerplant for the AGM-86 ALCM , and BGM-109 Tomahawk , as well as the experimental Kaman KSA-100 SAVER and Williams X-Jet flying platform.

  5. Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp - Wikipedia

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    It was the Pratt & Whitney aircraft company's first engine, and the first of the famed Wasp series. It was a single-row, nine-cylinder, air-cooled, radial design, and displaced 1,344 cubic inches (22 L); bore and stroke were both 5.75 in (146 mm). A total of 34,966 engines were produced. [1]

  6. Radial engine - Wikipedia

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    Radial engine in a biplane. The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. It resembles a stylized star when viewed from the front, and is called a "star engine" in some other languages.

  7. Sam B. Williams - Wikipedia

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    Sam Barlow Williams (7 May 1921 in Seattle, Washington – 22 June 2009 [1] in Indian Wells, California [2]) was an American inventor and founder of Williams International.He was best known for his development of the small fan-jet engine, and received several prestigious awards for innovation in this field of aviation.

  8. Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasp - Wikipedia

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    The R-2000 was an enlarged version of the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, with focus on reducing the manufacturing costs and fuel requirements.The bore was increased to 5.75 in (146 mm), while it still retained the 5.5 in (140 mm) stroke.

  9. Williams International - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Williams joined AGATE's General Aviation Propulsion program to develop a fuel-efficient turbofan engine that would be even smaller than the FJ44. The result was the FJX-2 engine. Williams then contracted with Burt Rutan 's Scaled Composites to design and build the Williams V-Jet II , a Very Light Jet to use as a testbed and technology ...