Archives of Engines

The Continental A80 is a 4-cylinder, 80 hp, air-cooled engine designed and built by Continental Motors in the 1940s.

The Pratt & Whitney R-985 “Wasp Junior” is a 9-cylinder, air-cooled radial aircraft engine widely used in the U.S. and abroad in the 1930s.

During WWII, Great Britain’s 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce “Merlin” engine equipped every front-line fighter in the Royal Air Force.

The Italian Fiat A.74 radial engine is a two-row, 14-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine first produced in 1936 and used extensively in WWII.

Built in 1918 in Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland, the Galloway Atlantic aircraft engine is a result of needed power for larger aircraft during WWI.

The Guiberson Diesel A-1020 is a radial engine tested in 1930 for use in military aircraft.

The Curtiss OX-5 engine powered mostly trainer-type aircraft such as the Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” during WWI.

The French Le Rhône rotary aircraft engine is one of the most important engineering designs of early aviation and provided air power for the Allies during World War I. This air-cooled engine provided better power-to-weight ratio than in-line liquid-cooled engines.