The Menasco Buccaneer was a series of popular six-cylinder, air-cooled, in-line, inverted, aero-engines that were manufactured by
Menasco Motors Company 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 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
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;Menasco B6 Buccaneer
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;Menasco B6S Buccaneer
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;Menasco C6 Buccaneer
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;Menasco C6S Super Buccaneer
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;Menasco D6 Super Buccaneer
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Applications
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Alcor C-6-1 Junior
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Bellanca 28-92
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Brown B-2 Racer
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Brown B-3
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Chester Goon
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Crosby CR-4
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Fokker S.IX/2
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Folkerts SK-3
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Howard DGA-4
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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 ...
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Miles Peregrine
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Northrop Beta 3
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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 ...
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PZL.26
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Rider R-6
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VEF I-14
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Waco Custom Cabin MGC-8
Specifications (Menasco B6S Buccaneer)
See also
References
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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 ...