Two Hawker Sea Furies and a Bearcat. In Royal Navy service with the Fleet Air Arm the Sea Furies were post-WWII carrier based fighter/bombers. They're bigger than the P-51s, and commensurately heavier, so it takes a much larger engine to drive one through the air as fast as a Mustang. A couple of the Sea Furies at Reno are powered by mammoth, four row Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radial engines (as in 4360 cubic inches); more commonly the Sea Fury's original English-made Centaurus three-row radial engine has been replaced by a Wright R-3350 two-row radial, four of which powered the Lockheed Super Constellation.
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