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File:Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers.jpg

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English: A worker atop the left engine of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport airplane at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California. The engine, which is exposed without its usual cowling, is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, a 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine of 1,200 horsepower (890 kW), and is fitted with a Hamilton Standard Hydromatic full-feathering constant-speed propeller. Original title: Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company.
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Alfred T. Palmer  (1906–1993)  wikidata:Q2895582
 
Alfred T. Palmer
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Date of birth/death 17 March 1906 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1993 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Jose Larkspur
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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