Originally Posted by
GotTheTshirt
Changed 50 plus cylinders on P&W all failures ( Some spectacular.)
What was that manufacturers logo on the side ? Something about "Pratt & Whitney" and .... um ... was it "Dependable Engines" ?
Mind you, if you'd had Wrights instead it would have been 100 plus cylinders. A story about B-29 Superfortress maintenance at Pacific bases in 1945 with Wright R-3350 powerplants described an enormous pile of failed engines, heaped up higher than a house, at the back of the maintenance base. And when it got put on the Connie and the DC7 there were similar stories. Broken valves were most common but other components took their turn as well.