{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.r-760-whirlwind","code":"thing-q8038250","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q8038250/","name":"R-760 Whirlwind","alternateNames":["R-760E-2 Whirlwind","R-760E Whirlwind","R-760E-1 Whirlwind"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.2","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.FLW"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A seven-cylinder air-cooled radial aircraft engine of the Wright Whirlwind family, produced by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation from the late 1920s in variants such as the R-760E, R-760E-1 and R-760E-2, with a displacement of about seven hundred and sixty cubic inches and outputs in the range of two hundred and twenty-five to three hundred and fifty horsepower, used in light transport, training and utility aircraft of the interwar period; the engine is a 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