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 563
fewer than half a dozen magnetos. Each magnetois inclosed. Two sparks are furnished to each cylinder 562 Aviation Engines from independent magnetos. On this engine there arealso no fewer than six carburetors. Shortness of crank-shaft, and therefore of engine length, and absence ofvibration are… … ^—jj-T- Fig. 250.—Propeller End of Sunbeam Eighteen-Cyiinder 475 B.H.P.Aviation Engine. of this arrangement, the piston travel in the case of thecentral row of cylinders is 160 mm., while the stroke ofthe pistons of the cylinders set on either side is in eachcase 168 mm. Inasmuch as each set of…
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