Were the Rolls-Royce Vulture & Packard X-2775 Horrible Failures?

The Rolls-Royce Vulture and the Packard X-2775 were X-24 engines designed and built in the pursuit of more power, for WWII aircraft and racing planes respectively. In this video we cover the interesting engineering and design of these engines while also taking a look at the important historic context.

Headline attribution: Packard 1A-2775 engine cross section-author LM Woolson (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Major modifications to drawing by placing moving pistons, conrods and crankshaft into the original image (created by Lets Go Aviate). In some places the original image is used unedited.

Chapters:
1:06 Packard X-2775 History
2:58 Packard X-2775 Design
7:18 Packard X-2775 Improvements
10:42 X Engine Lives Again : Rolls-Royce Vulture
11:37 Rolls-Royce Vulture Design
15:43 X Engine's Last Stand