Walter Major was a family of

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aircraft inline engines developed by

Walter Aircraft Engines Walter Aircraft Engines is an aircraft engine manufacturer and former automotive manufacturer. Its notable products include the M601 turboprop. The company is based in Prague, Czech Republic. It has been a subsidiary of GE Aerospace since Jul ...

in the 1930s.

Design and development

Available in either four or six cylinder configuration, with identical bore and stroke of and , respectively, the Walter Majors were primarily used in light aircraft. License-built in

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by the state-owned Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (as the PZInż. Major 4), the engine was used in, among others, Zlin Z-XIII, RWD-11 and one of the PWS-35 Ogar prototypes.

Applications

Walter Major 4

Beneš-Mráz Be-50 Beta-Minor The Beneš-Mráz Be-50 Beta-Minor was a light airplane manufactured in Czechoslovakia shortly before World War II. Design and development First flown in 1935, it was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of wooden construction, with tandem open cockp ...

* Beneš-Mráz Be-52 * Beneš-Mráz Be-56 * Beneš-Mráz Be-250 *

Beneš-Mráz Be-251 inž. P. Beneš a inž. J. Mráz, továrna na letadla was a Czechoslovak aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s. History Beneš-Mráz was established at Choceň by Pavel Beneš and Jaroslav Mráz on 1 Apr 1935 and manufactured a series of light airc ...

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* PWS-35 Ogar *

RWD 13 The RWD 13 was a Polish touring plane of 1935, three-seater high-wing monoplane, designed by the RWD team. It was the biggest commercial success of the RWD. Development The RWD 13 was a touring plane, developed from a line of sports planes RWD ...

RWD 20 The RWD 9 was a Polish sports plane of 1934, constructed by the RWD team. Development The aircraft was a further development of the RWD 6 - the winner of the ''IIIrd Challenge de Tourisme International'' Challenge 1932 international tourist airc ...

Spartan Cruiser The Spartan Cruiser was a 1930s British three- engined transport monoplane for 6 to 10 passengers built by Spartan Aircraft Limited at East Cowes, Isle of Wight. It was a development of the Saro-Percival Mailplane for passenger use. Developme ...

* Zlin Z-XIII *

Rubik R-18 Kánya The Rubik R-18 Kánya () is a Hungarian light utility and glider tug aircraft. It was designed by Ernő Rubik, the father of the designer of the Rubik's Cube. Design Ernő Rubik was a co-founder and the chief designer of the Aero-Ever aircraft ...

Walter Major 6

* Breda Ba.44 * Caproni Ca.308 Borea *

RWD 11 The RWD-11 was a six-passenger feeder-liner designed and built in Poland from 1932. Development In 1932 the Polish ministry of Transport let it be known that they wanted a multi-engined feeder-liner to operate low frequency routes with challen ...

Rogožarski SIM-XII-H The Rogožarski SIM-XII-H () was a Yugoslav trainer single-engine floatplane, with two floats designed in 1938. It was designed and built at the Rogožarski factory in Belgrade. Design and development The Yugoslav Royal Air Force, YRAF was unsu ...

Specifications (Major 4)

External links

Oldengine.orgvalka.cz
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