A Preliminary Study of Fuel Injection and Compression Ignition as Applied to an Aircraft Engine Cylinder (1927)
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would be located m one oi the spark- plug holes, which in the Liberty cylinder are off center, it appeared that the best distnlnition of fuel would be obtained by directing the fuel spray across the top of the piston. These conditions necessitated the adoption of an irregular form of head, having… … Fig. 2.-Comparison of high-compression piston (11.4:1) with the standard Liberty Army-type piston (5.4:1.) to make the piston longer above the wrist pin bosses, as shown in Figure 2. Sectional draw- ings of the high compression pistons arc shown in Figures 3 to 7, inclusive. Figures 3 and 4 show…
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