A Visit to Clark Co airport. - File 11 of 11 - Pratt-Whitney_T-34_B-17_testbed_NAN10-50.jpg (1/1)

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Story on this one?? Are the 4 main engines off and props feathered?? Test
bed for the engines on the B-36??

Bruce

"Bruce R" wrote
Story on this one?? Are the 4 main engines off and props feathered??
Test bed for the engines on the B-36??

A Boeing B-17 used as the testbed for the Pratt & Whitney T-34 tuboprop
engine. In 1945 the U.S. Navy funded the development of a turboprop engine.
The T-34 was produced from 1951 to 1960, but never used in a U.S. Navy
aircraft. The best known "user" was the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster.

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The engines props were feathered when testing the turbine engine mounted
on the nose. There also were tests using a huge radial engine too.
http://www.pointniner.com/2008/08/si...-aircraft.html
Here is a page on the history of the B-17.
http://www.456fis.org/HISTORY_OF_THE_B-17.htm Scroll way down the page
until you come to EB-17 conversions. Couldn't find where there was any
reference to the B-36 during any of these tests.

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"John Szalay" john.szalay.at.att.net wrote in message
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Story on this one?? Are the 4 main engines off and props feathered??
Test bed for the engines on the B-36??

Bruce


look like they are feathered to me..

"let them rest, its time to put the big guy to work..."