Chrysler Aircraft Engine

[PWR4360-59B]

I saw mention of this in another thread here, so instead of just going off topic there I started this.
Talk about a nightmare design, and all the problems they had to get to the point of it some what working and lasting. Though on some things they did improve some processes a bit. And then there was the just wow cost of it, saying nothing about the wooden engines !

 

[GrauGeist]

Are you referring to Chrysler's XIV-2220 or their A57 multibank?

 

[wuzak]

Wooden engines?

Is that referring to a dummy engine used for design and mockup purposes?

 

[PWR4360-59B]

The inverted V-16

 

[Tony Kambic]

Wooden mockup of the XI-2220 is pictured on page 83 of this book and also about 90 pages describing the engine and its development. Author is Kim McCutcheon who runs the Aviation Engine Historical Society.

 

[Shortround6]

you can see the gear in the middle of the crankshaft and you can count the bearings (one is obscured by the cross brace near the gear)
It was flown.

 

[Shortround6]

Wooden engines were far from unknown for use in aircraft mockups. Many lightwight mockup structures would not bear the weight of a regular engine and if the engine was still in development it allowed the airframe makers a 3D model to work out installations with without trying to ship an engine back and forth between the engine maker and the airframe maker.

 

[jetcal1]

Wooden engines were far from unknown for use in aircraft mockups. Many lightwight mockup structures would not bear the weight of a regular engine and if the engine was still in development it allowed the airframe makers a 3D model to work out installations with without trying to ship an engine back and forth between the engine maker and the airframe maker.

The Navy used to have Pattern Maker and Molder ratings. I should know when they were disestablished, but I don't.(Think around 97.)
'course now we have 3d printing.

 

[MACHIA]

Did it produce the rated hp ?

 

[AMCKen]

Chrysler IV-2220 - Wikipedia

 

[gumbyk]

The Navy used to have Pattern Maker and Molder ratings. I should know when they were disestablished, but I don't.(Think around 97.)
'course now we have 3d printing.

I've got a set of template maker manuals around here somewhere.

 

[fliger747]

My understanding is that it hadn't been worked up to it's rated HP. I did a FSX flight dynamic for this plane a while back for the well known FS plane maker Milton Shupe. Just for jollies we presumed rated HP, sort of a what if project. About the same time the P47J R2800 equipped aircraft reportedly turned in something like 508 mph in test.

Lots of ideas were tried out during the war, some good, some not. Sometimes interruption of production was too big a burden to bear to bring out a new aircraft.

 

[Tom Fey]

The Chrysler IV-2220 made rated power on the test stand, but never at altitude during the limited flight testing.

Best book on the subject: WFP Home

Video of the XP-47H:

 

[fastmongrel]

Two V8s working together I bet it sounded awesome.