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The Menasco Buccaneer was a series of popular six-cylinder, air-cooled, in-line, inverted, aero-engines that were manufactured by
Menasco Motors Company The Menasco Manufacturing Company was an American aircraft engine and component manufacturer. History The company was organized by Albert S. Menasco in 1926 to convert World War I surplus Salmson Z-9 water-cooled nine-cylinder radials into ai ...
for light
general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other ...
and sport aircraft during the 1930s and 1940s. The six-cylinder Menasco engines had the name Buccaneer, while the four-cylinder engines had the name
Pirate Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and valuable goods, or taking hostages. Those who conduct acts of piracy are call ...
. The Menasco engines came in both
supercharged In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement. It is a form of forced induction that is mechanically powered (usually by ...
and
normally aspirated A naturally aspirated engine, also known as a normally aspirated engine, and abbreviated to N/A or NA, is an internal combustion engine in which air intake depends solely on atmospheric pressure and does not have forced induction through a turboc ...
models. The supercharged models, with the ''S'' suffix added to their designation, had superior performance at higher altitudes with a relatively small increase in dimensions and weight.


Variants

;Menasco A6 Buccaneer : ;Menasco B6 Buccaneer : ;Menasco B6S Buccaneer : ;Menasco C6 Buccaneer : ;Menasco C6S Super Buccaneer : ;Menasco D6 Super Buccaneer :


Applications

* Alcor C-6-1 Junior *
Bellanca 28-92 The Bellanca 28-92 Trimotor was a racing aircraft built to compete in the Istres-Damascus-Paris Air Race of 1937, and was paid for by popular subscription in Romania. Christened ''Alba Iulia'' ("White Julia", registration ''YR-AHA'') it was pilot ...
* Brown B-2 Racer *
Brown B-3 The Brown B-3 was a 1930s American single-seat touring monoplane and air racer built by the Lawrence Brown Aircraft Company. Only one aircraft was built. Design and development The B-3 was based on earlier B-2 ''Miss Los Angeles'' single-seat ...
* Chester Goon * Crosby CR-4 * Fokker S.IX/2 * Folkerts SK-3 *
Howard DGA-4 The Howard DGA-4 a.k.a. Mike, and DGA-5 a.k.a. Ike and "Miss Chevrolet" was the next in a series of racers from Ben Howard. He built two examples, "Mike" and "Ike", each with a different landing gear design. Design and development In 1932 work ...
*
Miles Mohawk The Miles M.12 Mohawk was a 1930s British two-seat, tandem cabin monoplane built by Phillip & Powis Aircraft (later to become Miles Aircraft) to the order of Charles Lindbergh in 1936. After being used by Lindbergh in Europe it was impressed into ...
* Miles Peregrine * Northrop Beta 3 *
Northrop N-9M The Northrop N-9M was an approximately one-third scale, span flying wing aircraft used for the development of the full size, wingspan Northrop YB-35, Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 flying wing long-range, heavy bomber. First flown in 1942, the N-9M ...
* PZL.26 *
Rider R-6 The Rider R-6 was the last of the Keith Rider designed racing aircraft of the 1930s. Development The R-6 eightball had smooth plywood skins painted light blue with a large eight ball on each side. The actual racing number for the aircraft was 18 ...
*
VEF I-14 The VEF I-14 was a Latvian Air Force trainer aircraft prototype, built by VEF. Design and development Kārlis Irbītis began work on the I-14 in 1936 in response to an order placed by the Latvian Air Force for a new trainer aircraft. Takin ...
* Waco Custom Cabin MGC-8


Specifications (Menasco B6S Buccaneer)


See also


References

* * {{Menasco aeroengines Air-cooled aircraft piston engines 1930s aircraft piston engines Inverted aircraft piston engines Straight-six engines
Buccaneer Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors, and pirates particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday was from the Restoration in 1660 u ...