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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Engines for Superbombers

Posted October 26, 2009 10:28 AM by dstrohl

These images come from a rare 1945 promotional booklet published by Dodge when its Chicago assembly plant was made over for the licensed production of Wright Cyclone radial aircraft engines during World War II.

Among many other things, the Chicago plant included foundries for producing magnesium and aluminum castings on a gigantic scale, very new practices at the time. The Wright engines ended up powering B-29 Superfortress bombers until the end of the war, and beyond.

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Re: Engines for Superbombers

02/20/2010 7:09 PM

Gentelmans,

Very impressive absolutely, waaoouuh. Imagine how much one of those puppies cost to made out, goossshh!

Hey very nice data you bring it up for us to see. Appreciate greatly.

Strong Times,

MC

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02/16/2013 10:23 PM

You don't really know how awsome those engines are,until you hear a B-29 flying overhead!Had the honor of it during our Tico Warbird Air Show last March when the amazing "FiFi flew in.Check it out...http://www.cafb29b24.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139:titusville&catid=37:stops

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