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radial engine
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Any of several internal combustion engines that have the cylinders arranged radially around a central crankshaft
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The Wright Whirlwind air-cooled radial engine developed a maximum of 237 horsepower.
Radial engine cylinders are arranged around the crankcase; they are air cooled and lighter than the liquid-cooled engines in cars.
This paper investigates toxic emissions emitted by ASz62-IR radial engine under training flight conditions.
Maybe it's an airplane-crazy little boy, or maybe it's a man in his 80's who remembers training on one during World War II and recognizes from his deep subconscious the sound of its radial engine.
It was powered by a radial engine derived from the Wright Cyclone and had manually retracted landing gear and an open cockpit.
With a big radial engine of 450 horsepower (or more), the high-wing Beaver could carry six to seven people (often more), or about 1,700 pounds (770 kg) of payload (usually more).
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Most Allied fighters at that time were powered by rotary radial engines (i.e., with the cylinders, arranged radially about the crankcase like the spokes of a wheel, rotating around a stationary crankshaft).
Many of these American radial engines powered airplanes built overseas.
Each of its Wright turbocompound radial engines developed 3,400 horsepower.
In 1928, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) announced its famous cowling for radial engines.
Lindbergh's flight, in particular, demonstrated the essential reliability of improved radial engines.
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