Pratt & Whitney Wasp series

Pratt & Whitney Wasp (of English. " Wasp " ) is the name for an aircraft engine family of the U.S. manufacturer Pratt & Whitney from the 1920s to the late 1950s. There are air-cooled radial engines of which aggregated several hundred thousand units were built, the model R -1830 alone is 173 618 pcs.

Models

  • R -1340 Wasp
  • R -985 Wasp Junior
  • R- 1690 Hornet
  • R -1830 Twin Wasp
  • R -1535 Twin Wasp Junior
  • R-2000 Twin Wasp
  • R- 2180E Twin Wasp
  • R -2800 Double Wasp
  • R -4360 Wasp Major

Note: The term describes the engine type and engine capacity. "R " stands for " radial" ( = radial engine radial engine ), followed by a number indicating the size of the displacement in cubic inches. One cubic inch is equal to 16.387064 cm ³, making it the largest engine has a displacement of 4360 cubic inches of 71.25 liters.

Engine displacement List of aircraft engines
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