"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" wrote in message
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> Which one is still in service five-plus decades on? =}
The TBO of the Wasp Major was about 600 hours when used in commercial
service (Boeing 377). It was notorious for engine fires and it had a
voracious appetite for oil that made it uneconomical for airlines to operate
(each engine on the B-36 required 100 gallons of oil, and often engines had
to be shut down because the oil had ran out).
More on the R-4350: http://www.enginehistory.org/r-4360ops1.shtml
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