Lawrance L-3 Explained

The Lawrance L-3 and L-4 were early aircraft piston engines with three radial cylinders, designed and built by the Lawrance Aero Engine Company in the early 1920s. The L-3 / L-4 series were marketed by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation as the Wright Gale after the acquisition of the Lawrance company.

Applications

• Loening M-2
• Naval Aircraft Factory SA
• Sikorsky S-33 Messenger

References

• This article contains material that originally came from the placard at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, with dimensional error corrected (radius reported as diameter).

External links

• Web site: Lawrance L-3 Radial Engine. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. 1 January 2011. 2 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110402170157/http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19731573000. dead.