The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like...
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The rotary engine is an early type of internal combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration....
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LeBlond radial engines, later produced under the name Ken-Royce, were a family of 3-cylinder, 5-cylinder and 7-cylinder, air-cooled radial engines for aircraft...
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for later radial engines. 1910: Coandă-1910, an unsuccessful ducted fan aircraft exhibited at Paris Aero Salon, powered by a piston engine. The aircraft...
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water-cooled radial engine Salmson M.9 water-cooled radial engine Salmson P.9 water-cooled radial engine Salmson R.9 water-cooled radial engine Salmson M.7 water-cooled...
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Jacob Ellehammer (section Radial Engine)
three-cylinder radial engine fitted which is considered being reuse of his original engine, hence the first functioning radial engine still exists and...
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attention to diesel radial engines and finally produced a H-16 engine before he died in 1943. What distinguished the Clerget rotary engine from its rivals...
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BMW 801 (category Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines)
14-cylinder-radial aircraft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Production versions of the twin-row engine generated...
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where straight engines are a rarity and V engines have almost vanished except in historical aircraft. They have even replaced radial engines in many smaller...
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radial engine. 3 built. Waco QCF: 165 hp (123 kW) Continental A-70 radial engine. 31 built. Waco UCF: 210 hp (160 kW) Continental R-670 radial engine...
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Nakajima Sakae (redirect from Nakajima Army Type 99 975 hp Air-cooled Radial)
radial engine used in a number of combat aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. The engine...
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radial engines in small aircraft after World War II because they were less expensive to manufacture. The smaller frontal area compared with a radial engine...
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14-cylinder[citation needed] two-row radial, air-cooled (prototype) BMW 801 14-cylinder two-row radial, air-cooled — most-produced radial engine of the Third Reich BMW...
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860 kW). The P-47 was already in production with a Pratt & Whitney radial engine when the XIV-2220 flew successfully in trials in 1945 as a possible...
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fixed-crankshaft radial engine built into the back wheel. In 1896, E. R. Thomas of Buffalo, New York, began selling gasoline engine kits for propelling...
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three-cylinder fan engines and radial engines, one of which powered Louis Blériot's 1909 cross-channel flight. An Anzani three-cylinder engine that powers a...
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Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major (category Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines)
Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major is an American 28-cylinder four-row radial piston aircraft engine designed and built during World War II. At 4,362.5 cu in (71...
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Gasoline direct injection (redirect from GDI Engine)
German aircraft engines used GDI, such as the BMW 801 radial engine, the German inverted V12 Daimler-Benz DB 601, DB 603 and DB 605 engines, and the similar-layout...
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The Comet 7-cylinder radials were a family of air-cooled radial engines, designed and built by the Comet Engine Corporation at Madison, Wisconsin from...
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Vedeneyev M14P (category Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines)
radial engine. Producing 360 hp (268 kW), its design dates from the 1940s (Kotelnikov 2005), and is itself a development of the Ivchenko AI-14 engine...
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V20 V24 V32 Straight engine Flat engine Radial engine U engine H engine W engine X engine Media related to V engines at Wikimedia Commons Larson, Len...
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Co. Ltd. Japan. (in English) O.S Engines Home Page Saito Engines Technopower Engines Radial Engines Yamada Engines Craftmanship Museum page for Shigeo...
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Wright R-1820 Cyclone (category Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines)
The Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 is an American radial engine developed by Curtiss-Wright, widely used on aircraft in the 1930s through 1950s. It was produced...
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Kawasaki Ki-100 (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
14-cylinder Mitsubishi Ha-112-II radial engine in place of the original Kawasaki Ha-40 inverted V-12 inline engine, resulting in one of the best interceptors...
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multiple engine control functions simultaneously was the created by BMW in 1939 Kommandogerät system used by the BMW 801 14-cylinder radial engine which...
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a series of widely used air-cooled aircraft engines. After their successful water-cooled radial engines, developed from 1908 to 1918, Salmson changed...
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to be powered by the H-2470, but the engine's poor performance led to the adoption of an alternative radial engine on the prototype. (The XF14C did not...
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Wright R-2600 Twin Cyclone (category Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines)
Wright R-2600 Cyclone 14 (also called Twin Cyclone) is an American radial engine developed by Curtiss-Wright, and widely used in aircraft in the 1930s...
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five-cylinder radial engine design failed to live up to its claims. Langley's chief assistant, Charles Manly, then reworked the engine to produce a design...
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Firing order (category Engine technology)
and all Pontiac engines would have cylinder #1 on the left bank, to simplify the process of identifying the cylinders. In a radial engine the cylinders...
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