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In the late 1920s, British engine expert Harry R. Ricardo hypothesized that the spark-ignition internal combustion engine with poppet valves had reached its…
In the late 1920s, the Lycoming Manufacturing Corporation of Williamsport (Lycoming County), Pennsylvania entered the aircraft engine business. At the time, Lycoming was…
The Lycoming Division of the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation was located in Williamsport (Lycoming County), Pennsylvania. The company had started producing aircraft engines in…
As World War II wound down, Northrop looked for opportunities to expand its aviation products. At the time, various reports forecasted a need…
At the close of World War II, the United States Navy lacked the ability to carry out a nuclear strike. The nuclear bombs…
Aircraft engine designer Frank Bernard Halford believed that an engine using a multitude of small cylinders running at a relatively high rpm would…
In late 1926, Lt. Alford Joseph Williams approached the Packard Motor Car Company (Packard) regarding a high-power engine for a special aircraft project.…
Front page story, New York Times, April 28th, 1947. It was April 1947. America was about to begin its post-World War II economic boom. …