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  • Fiat A-12

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The Fiat A-12 engine is a six-cylinder, liquid-cooled, in-line engine of 260 hp. It was used in such aircraft as the S.I.A. 7B1, Fiat R-2, S.A.M.L. S-2 reconnaissance aircraft, and the Caproni Ca. 46 bomber.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions

  • British ABC Wasp

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The ABC Wasp is an experimental seven-cylinder, radial engine of 170 hp, designed by the noted British engineer Granville Bradshaw. At a weight of 290 pounds, it had one of the most advanced power-to-weight ratios of the day -- 1.7 pounds per horsepower. This

  • BMW 132E

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The BMW 132 series was the principal large radial engine used in Germany during the early 1930s. It was essentially a copy of the Pratt and Whitney "Hornet" designed in America. In 1929 BMW (Bavarian Motor Works) obtained a license to build the "Hornet" in

  • Renault 12-F

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The French-built Renault 12-F engine was used in the Brequet 14 and Voisin 10 two-seater observation and bombing planes flown by American forces in France during World War I. TECHNICAL NOTES: Type: 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, Vee Rated hp: 300Click here to

  • Anzani 10

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The French and British-built Anzani 10 was an air-cooled radial engine of 90-100 hp. It was installed in the French-produced Caudron G.3 and later the Caudron G.4 twin-engine airplane, which appeared in March 1915. By the time the United States began sending

  • Lorraine-Dietrich 8Be

    Note: This item is currently in storage.Production of the French Lorraine-Dietrich V-8 type engine began in late 1917 and included the 8B, 8Ba, 8Bd and 8Be. This 8Be engine is of the same general type as that used in the two-place SPAD XVI aircraft of World War I. TECHNICAL NOTES: Model: 8Be Type:

  • Packard 3A-2500

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The 3A-2500 is a 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, direct-drive engine. Packard developed this engine, an improved version of the Packard 2A-2500 used on the Huff-Daland Keystone LB-1 bomber, in the late 1920s. This basic engine also was produced in geared and

  • VB-10 Guided Bomb

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The VB-10 was a radio-guided bomb in the ROC series which was directed by a bombardier in response to data broadcast from a television camera in the nose of the bomb or in response to visual sighting. The VB-10 used a standard 1,000-pound bomb and a circular

  • VB-9 Guided Bomb

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The VB-9, one of the first of the "ROC" series of medium angle guided bombs, used a 1,000-pound general purpose bomb. The ROC nickname was derived from a giant mythological bird in tales from the Arabian Nights. The VB-9 was designed with four symmetrically

  • VB-6 Felix Guided Bomb

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The Felix was a 1,000-pound bomb fitted with moveable control surfaces and an electronic device in the nose which caused the bomb to "home in" on targets giving off sufficient heat. Suitable targets would have been those producing sufficient internal heat