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 Motors 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 9 (water-cooled engine), Salmson Z-9 water-cooled nine ...
for light
general aviation 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. The Menasco engines came in both
supercharged
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and
normally aspirated
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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
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-sea ...
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Chester Goon
The Chester Goon aka The Chester Special #2 was a single-engine taildragger-configuration monoplane racer built for the 1938 National Air Races.
Design and development
Art Chester followed on his successful air racer the " Jeep"" with the Goon ...
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Crosby CR-4
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Fokker S.IX/2
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Folkerts SK-3
The Folkerts SK-3 a.k.a. ''"Jupiter, Pride of Lemont"'' was the third in a series of air racers developed by Clayton Folkerts.
Design and development
The SK-3 was built for mechanic Rudy A. Kling from Lemont, Illinois as his personal racing airc ...
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Howard DGA-4
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Miles Mohawk
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Miles Peregrine
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Design and development
The M.8 Peregrine was the first twin-engined aircraft developed by Mil ...
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Northrop Beta 3
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Northrop N-9M
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PZL.26
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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 ...
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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. Taki ...
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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