Walter Major was a family of

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aircraft inline engines developed by

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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 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 ...

and one of the

PWS-35 Ogar The PWS-35 ''Ogar'' ( en, Polish Hound) was a two-seat, aerobatic training biplane that was designed by Kazimierz Nowicki, Marian Piątka and Michał Rosnowski at the Lviv Polytechnic in 1935/1936. Design and development The aircraft was desig ...

prototypes.

Applications

Walter Major 4

* Beneš-Mráz Be-50 Beta-Minor * Beneš-Mráz Be-52 * Beneš-Mráz Be-56 * Beneš-Mráz Be-250 * Beneš-Mráz Be-251 * González Gil-Pazó GP-4 *

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 6 ...

* RWD 20 *

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. Design an ...

* Zlin Z-XIII * Rubik R-18 Kánya

Walter Major 6

* Breda Ba.44 *

Caproni Ca.308 Borea The Caproni Ca.308 ''Borea'' ("North Wind") was a small airliner built in Italy in the mid-1930s. Development The Ca.308 was a streamlined, low-wing cantilevered monoplane design of conventional configuration. Its undercarriage was not retrac ...

* RWD 11 *

Rogožarski SIM-XII-H The Rogožarski SIM-XII-H (Serbian Cyrillic:Рогожарски СИМ-XII-Х) 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 dev ...

Specifications (Major 4)

External links

Oldengine.orgvalka.cz
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