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radial engine

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radial engine

Type of internal-combustion engine used mainly in small airplanes, in which the cylinders (ranging from five to as many as 28, depending on engine size) are mounted in a circle around the crankshaft, sometimes in banks of two or more. Once the dominant piston-engine type, radials are now in only limited production; most new requirements are met by remanufacturing existing stock.


radial engine [′rād·ē·əl ′en·jən]
(mechanical engineering)
An engine characterized by radially arranged cylinders at equiangular intervals around the crankshaft.


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The air frame used with the early marks of this engine was the Hawker Typhoon, which was superseded by the Hawker Tempest, although at the end of the war the Tempest received a Bristol radial engine.
His version will be powered by jet turboprops, for example, instead of radial engines.
When the war ended I was transferred to production of Alvis Leonides nine-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine.
 
 
 
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