Aviation engines, design - construction - operation and repair; a complete, practical treatise outlining clearly the elements of internal combustion engineering with special reference to the design, construction, operation and repair of airplane power plants; also the auxiliary engine systems, such as lubrication, carburetion, ignition and cooling. It includes complete instructions for engine repairing and systematic location of troubles, tool equipment and use of tools, also outlines the latest mechanical processes (1917)
Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947 · New York, The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company · leaf 221
chap-ters that the power of an internalTCombustion motor isobtained by the rapid combustion and consequent ex-pansion of some inflammable gas. The operation inbrief is that when air or any other gas or vapor isheated, it will expand and that if this gas is confinedin a space which will not permit… … Fig. 80.—Why Pressure Feed System is Best for Eight-Cylinder Vee Airplane Engines. Why Cooling Systems are Needed 221 confines. Pressure in a gas may be created by increasingits temperature and inversely heat may be created bypressure. When a gas is compressed its total volume isreduced and the…
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