Wright T-3 Tornado

The Wright T-3 Tornado, also given the United States Air Force designation Wright V-1950, was an American liquid-cooled V-12 aircraft piston engine designed in the early 1920s. It was the third of the T series developed by Wright Aeronautical from the Wright-Hisso engines of the First World War, using monobloc cylinder blocks and gear-driven overhead camshafts. The T-1 of 1921 gave 500 horsepower and went into production as the T-2 in 1922 at 525 horsepower; the T-3 and T-3A appeared from 1923 at 575 horsepower, and the T-4 reached 675 horsepower by December of that year. The T-3 displaced 1,947 cubic inches (31.9 litres) and weighed about 1,000 pounds. It powered the Curtiss CS, Martin SC, Martin T3M and Wright F2W among others.