R-2800 DOUBLE WASP ENGINE
The Double Wasp, an 18-cylinder, twin-row radial engine with 2,800 cubic inches of displacement, followed the Twin Wasp.
Designed with improved water injection and turbo-supercharging, it produced more than one horsepower per cubic inch of displacement. It became the backbone of the American fighter fleet during World War II, powering the Grumman F6F Hellcat, the Vought F4U Corsair and the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
Specs
- Displacement:
2,804 cubic inches - Revolutions per minute: 2,250-2,800
- Weight: 2,360 pounds
- First run: 1937
- First flight: 1939
- Production years: 1939-1960
- Engines produced: 125,334
Airplanes Powered
- Aero Nord Model 2501
- Aero Nord Model 2503
- Aero Sud-Ouest SO-30P
- Bell HSL-1 (Model 61)
- Breguet BR-763
- Breguet BR-765
- Brewster XA-32
- Brewster F3A-1
- Chase 123-B
- Consolidated Vultee TBY-2
- Consolidated Vultee Model 110
- Consolidated Vultee Model 240
- Consolidated Vultee Model 340
- Consolidated Vultee Model 440
- Consolidated Vultee T-29
- Consolidated Vultee C-131
- Curtiss Wright C-46 (R5C)
- Curtiss Wright P-60A, E
- Curtiss Wright XC-113
- Curtiss Wright XF15C
- Curtiss Wright SB2C-6
- Douglas A-26
- Douglas JD-1
- Douglas XC-112A
- Douglas DC-6 (C-118, R6D)
- Eastern XTBM-5
- Fairchild C-82
- Fairchild C-123B
- Fleetwings BTK-1
- Goodyear FG-1,3,4
- Grumman F6F
- Grumman F7F
- Grumman F8F
- Grumman AF-2W,S
- Hughes D2A (XA-37)
- Lockheed RB-24 (PV-1)
- Lockheed PV-2
- Lockheed C-69E
- Martin B-26 (JM-1,2)
- Martin AT-23
- Martin PBM-5
- Martin Model 202,A
- Martin 404 (RM-1)
- North American XB-28
- North American AJ-1,2
- Northrop XP-56
- Northrop P-61 (F2T)
- Northrop F-15F
- Republic P-47
- Sikorsky S-56 (H-37, HR2S)
- Sikorsky HR2S-1W
- Stroukoff Pantobase
- Vickers Warwick I, II
- Vought AU-1
- Vought F4U
- Vought XTBU-1
- Vultee XA-19B