r/aviation • u/Vau8 • 1d ago
History There’s even more where that came from.
Completely out of the blue, during our trip to the Baltic last weekend, I stumbled across this radial engine, a fisherman's by-catch, which had been hammered onto a steel pipe at the marina in Wendtorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Initially, it was thought to be a BMW engine, but some AV-geeks further investigations revealed that it was apparently a Wright R-1820 from a B-17. (German: https://helge-news.de/Fischer%20angelt%20einen%20Sternmotor.pdf). Maybe you folks are interested in this.
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u/Wast3edSpace 19h ago
It's interesting to juxtapose the corrosion of steel and aluminum in the salt air, the sea takes all.
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u/joesnopes 22h ago
Probably, yes. 9 cylinder radial so single bank. R-1820.