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 474
tothe radial arrangement of the cylinders, the weight is but4!/4 pounds per B. H. P. CONSTRUCTION OF EARLY GNOME MOTOR It cannot be denied that for a time one of the mostwidely used of aeroplane motors was the seven-cylinderrevolving air-cooled Gnome, made in France. For a totalweight of 167 pounds… … 473 474 Aviation Engines engineers have produced a nine-cylinder and by combi-ning two single engines a fourteen-cylinder revolvingGnome, having a nominal rating of 100 horse-power, withwhich worlds speed records were broken. A still morepowerful engine has been made with eighteen-cylinders.The…
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