Unidentified - Formerly - Flying Object (UFFO)
(UPDATE VII: Menasco or DeHavilland ?)
Several photos (from Florida) of an aero engine landed in our office. It’s quite a big six-cylinder overhead valve pushrod with a Ducellier ignition. The engine is 60 inches (1-1/2 meters) long and 26 inches high (just a bit over 65 centimeters). It’s bore and stroke are 4.75 inches x 6 inches (1207 x 1524 mm). That’s about all we can tell you about this mystery engine, but to help you identify it, we have a photo of the left side taken from the rear (click on main picture), one from the right side and one from the left side taken from the front. Please study them and . write us what you think.
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Updat VII from: Josef Kubista: “The Walter Major Six is little bit different in bore x stroke dimensions."
Update VI by Geoff Chennells: “Renault 6Q (01 or 03).”
Update V by Erik Hakstege: "I think it is an Walter Major 6 engine.
Later the engine was build in Czech as an Avia with fuel injection instead of carburetors."
Update IV by Bert Tressel: "It's NOT a Ranger 6-440 c. I have owned one. Ranger 6 (used inverted) was produced in 180 and 200 bhp. used in Fairchild aircraft. Made in the late thirties and early fourties."
Update III from Mike Crehan: “Looks like a DeHavilland Gipsy Six to me. Used in the Dragon Rapide, DH86 and DH89 Comet. First produced in the early 1930s and developed over quarter of a century culminating in the supercharged Gipsy Queen engines widely used in civilian and military aircraft such as the Dove, Heron, Miles Marathon and Percival Proctor. And it’s upside down in the picture!”
Update II by Robin Tuluie: “… Menasco Buccaneer, built in Los Angeles in the early and mid 1930's by Al Menasco. During this time, more air races were won by Menasco Pirate 4-cylinder and Menasco Buccaneer 6-cylinder powered racing planes than any other make. While Menasco no longer made aircraft engines, they still produce landing gears for commercial aircraft as well as the space shuttle.”
Update I comes from Sandy Sanders: “… close resemblance to a Ranger engine. The Ranger was used in the inverted position. Used in Fairchild PT-19-PT-26.
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