They've got a double Wasp, Pratt and Whitney, down at the Lexington in Corpus, a floating museum of WW2 naval air power. It's the motor that powered the Grumman F6F Hellcat. It made about 2,500 hp in the Hellcat. That's one BIG chunka iron! This display motor is cool, sectioned on a couple of cylinders to show the innards.
Radials are awesome to listen to when they fire up. My mom worked for her cousin's flying service for a while when I was a kid, crop duster. He had radial powered biplanes. I used to go to work with her and when they'd fire one of 'em up for a job, I just soaked it in.
He'd flown in the navy in WW2 and was a little crazy behind the stick. He had a couple of nasty crashes under his belt and survived 'em.
