How Pratt & Whitney Changed Aviation

Click here for the Eight Sleep Black Friday Sale: $550 off the Pod Mattress, $300 off the Pod Cover Promo code DROID at checkout. Pratt & Whitney built arpound 50% of all the allied aero engines used in WW2 and nearly all of the them were based on one ground braking engine that changed military aviation and produced some of the toughest engines of the war that proved pivitol during the war in the Pacific against the Japanese and greatly helped in Europe too. This is the story of the Prat and Whitney Wasp and its desendants. This video is sponsored by Eight Sleep Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : US DoD, US Navy, Pratt & Wihitney, Curtiss Wright, stcroixair, Classic Aero Machining Service, Christian Sturm, herbcrosby And a big thanks go to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Adriaan_von_Grobbe Alipasha Sadri Andrew Smith Brian Kelly Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Collin Copfer Daniel Davenport Dom Riccobene erik ahrsjo Etienne Dechamps Florian Muller George Bishop II Glenn Dickinson Henning Bitsch inunotaisho Jesse Postier Jonathan Travers Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Lorne Diebel Mark Heslop oldGhostbear Paul Freed Paul Shutler pizza smuggler Pu239 Samuel Finch SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve Ehrmann Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort tesaft Thales of Miletus Tim Alberstein Tomasz Leszczyński Will Lowe