Turbo-Compound Wright 3350
The Turbo-Compounding certainly added to the power of the Wright 3350. It did, unfortunately, lead to the loss of at least one aircraft and eight crew members to my knowledge. In February 1959 a RAAF Neptune was lost as a result of an uncontained Power Recovery Turbine failure which led to an uncontrollable fire which was of such intensity as to burn through the wing resulting in the aircraft crashing into the bank of the Hawkesbury River, short of the airfield.