Aviation engines; design--construction--operation and repair; (1919)
Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947 · New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 106
ines described, this methodof construction is not generally followed and has beenalmost entirely displaced abroad by the revolving motorsor by the more conventional eight-cylinder V engines.Both of the engines shown were designed about eight years Rotary Cylinder Engir^es 107 ago and would be… … Fig. 40.—The Gnome Fourteen-Cylinder Revolving Motor. rather an interesting point that is often overlooked inconnection with the application of this idea to flightmotors, that the reason why rotary engines are popularlysupposed to be lighter than the others is because they formtheir own fly-wheel,…
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