Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine

E380894

aircraft engine piston engine radial engine

The Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine was a reliable air-cooled aircraft engine of the 1920s, best known for powering Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine canonical	1
Wright Whirlwind engine family	1

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	aircraft engine ⓘ piston engine ⓘ radial engine ⓘ
aircraftPowered	Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis ⓘ
application	light aircraft ⓘ long-distance record flights ⓘ
associatedEvent	Charles Lindbergh ⓘ surface form: 1927 transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh
configuration	9-cylinder radial ⓘ
coolingSystem	air-cooled ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
designation	Wright J-5C Whirlwind ⓘ surface form: J-5C
designFeature	air-cooled cylinder arrangement for better cooling ⓘ improved reliability over earlier Whirlwind models ⓘ
era	1920s ⓘ
family	Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Wright Whirlwind engine family
fuelType	aviation gasoline ⓘ
historicalSignificance	key engine in the development of long-distance air travel ⓘ
manufacturer	Wright Aeronautical Corporation ⓘ
notability	known for reliability on long over-water flights ⓘ
notableCharacteristic	high reliability for its time ⓘ suitable for extended continuous operation ⓘ
notableUse	Charles Lindbergh’s first solo nonstop transatlantic flight ⓘ
poweredAircraftType	early transport and mail aircraft ⓘ single-engine monoplanes ⓘ
poweredFlight	The Spirit of St. Louis ⓘ surface form: New York–Paris transatlantic flight of 1927
predecessor	Wright J-4 Whirlwind ⓘ
roleInAviationHistory	enabled early long-range flight records ⓘ
series	Wright J-5C Whirlwind ⓘ surface form: Wright J-5 Whirlwind
technology	reciprocating internal combustion engine ⓘ
timePeriodOfUse	early 1930s ⓘ late 1920s ⓘ
usedBy	civil aviation operators ⓘ experimental and record-attempt pilots ⓘ
usedInAircraft	Spirit of St. Louis ⓘ
usedInRole	long-range navigation experiments ⓘ record-breaking flights ⓘ
user	Charles Lindbergh ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine
Description of subject: The Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine was a reliable air-cooled aircraft engine of the 1920s, best known for powering Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis → engineType → Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine ⓘ

Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine → family → Wright J-5C Whirlwind radial engine self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Wright J-5C Whirlwind

this entity surface form: Wright Whirlwind engine family