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Hi to All,
Check this out, a 1400 HP 2 stroke V12 engine by Rolls Royce,
Awesome!!
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My favourite of the advanced WW2 engines - and perhaps the most powerful and complicated aircraft engine ever built - was the Napier Sabre. An H-24 cylinder with 5,500 hp, it was used in production fighter aircraft at the end of the war (the Hawker Typhoon was a story by itself).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Sabre

Hi Grumpy, yes mate that was an awesome engine also, but from what I've read in combat reports and service records, it too had reliability problems. There is a great book, "The Big Show" which details the exploits of an RAF pilot; a free Frenchman by the name of Pierre Clostermann, who had experience with the Hawker Tempest.A good read! Click HERE

The Sabre engine certainly had reliability problems, though I think later in the war they were probably comparable with those of other combat engines. The Sabre particularly disliked operating from loose-dirt advanced airfields, due to sucking vast amounts of dirt into its air intakes, which destroyed the sleeve valves. It was interesting that Clostermann flew the Tempest (originally called Typhoon Mark II, and later redeveloped into the Sea Fury, which Australia and the UK used as a carrier-launched aircraft in Korea). The Sea Fury, incidentally, like the Typhoon and Tempest, was mainly a fighter-bomber (i.e. a ground-attack aircraft), but despite this, and despite it being a propeller-driven aircraft, one of them shot down a MiG 15 in air-to-air combat in Korea. That Chinese pilot must have been having a bad day.

Probably the Typhoon's greatest accomplishment was providing ground-attack air support for the D-Day invasion. Eisenhower credited the Typhoons with enabling his forces' breakout from the beach-heads, after things had started to look sticky for them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Typhoon