Were the Rolls-Royce Vulture & Packard X-2775 Horrible Failures?

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The Rolls-Royce Vulture and the Packard X-2775 were X-24 engines designed and built in the pursuit of more power, for WWII aircraft and racing planes respectively. In this video we cover the interesting engineering and design of these engines while also taking a look at the important historic context. H-24 Napier Sabre Explained Simply : https://youtu.be/xdkgcXnWoxY Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lets_go_aviate/ Headline attribution: Packard 1A-2775 engine cross section-author LM Woolson (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) Major modifications to drawing by placing moving pistons, conrods and crankshaft into the original image (created by Lets Go Aviate). In some places the original image is used unedited. Chapters: 1:06 Packard X-2775 History 2:58 Packard X-2775 Design 7:18 Packard X-2775 Improvements 10:42 X Engine Lives Again : Rolls-Royce Vulture 11:37 Rolls-Royce Vulture Design 15:43 X Engine's Last Stand Video attribution: HISTORY OF AVIATION by PublicResourceOrg (https://youtu.be/Ga7uFVmWB7A), licence CC-BY The Air Force Story (Chapter 3) -- Struggle for Recognition, 1923-1930 by U.S. Air Force Reserve (https://youtu.be/huWxdQwl9Nw), licence CC-BY Spitfire Recognition| US Air Force Instructional Film (1944) by Armoured Archivist (https://youtu.be/08XIrNKp_YI), licence CC-BY Inline 6 animation-author MichaelFrey (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) crom + zoom + lines overlaid X-engine animation-author MichaelFrey (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) overlaid arrows Radial engine animation-author Duk (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) no changes X-engine (90°)-author MichaelFrey (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) used multiple times on screen at once. Overlaid tick and cross The Battle of Britain 1940 by Written by the Victor (https://youtu.be/tTieaF0yWdk), licence CC-BY Gloster Meteor - A Short History by A Short History (https://youtu.be/kbdFjTAnbpM), licence CC-BY Image attribution: Daimler-Benz DB 604-author Thomas Vogt (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) overlaid text title Napier Cub-author unknown;source The Flight magazine archive from Flightglobal (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) overlaid text titles Macchi M.39-author Alan Wilson (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en) no changes Packard 1A-2775 engine cross section-author LM Woolson (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) crop+zoom Packard 1A-2775 engine crankshaft-author LM Woolson (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) overlaid arrows Kirkham-Williams Racer-Reproduced from Aero Digest Magazine Vol.11 No.3 September, 1927. No changes Hawker Tornado 3-view line drawing-author Emoscopes (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) overlaid text Williams Mercury Racer-author MAC06130 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) no changes Schneider Trophy-author Morio (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) no changes Rolls Royce-kestrel-author PeterGrecian (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) crop+zoom+overlaid text title Rolls-Royce Kestrel rear-author Zala (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) crop+zoom+overlaid text title Rolls-Royce Merlin-author JAW (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) crop+zoom+overlaid title text Avro Lancaster Bomber by Julian P Guffogg (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en) crop+zoom Napier Sabre III engine at RAF Museum London-author (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en) no changes RR Griffon-author TSRL (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) no changes