Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose, 1880- · New York, Funk and Wagnalls company · leaf 150
icipatory calculations which were madein relation to the flight over the 1,880 miles of the openAtlantic. If the aeroplane, fitted with twin engines such asthose with which the successful Vickers-Vimy machine wasequipped, had made the crossing in twenty hours—the esti-mated time—and had maintained… … Some British Aeromotors of To-Day terior of its cylinder, a travel of 5^ inches in each direction,would have covered 440 miles. Seeing that the two enginestotal 24 pistons, the total piston travel thereof would havebeen 10,560 miles—an immense journey for such diminutivepieces of steel. During the…
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