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| View Poll Results: Your favorite type of aircraft piston engine (for WWII) | |||
| Radial |     | 20 | 52.63% |
| Vee |    | 8 | 21.05% |
| Inverted Vee |    | 6 | 15.79% |
| H engine (Sabre, for instance) |    | 3 | 7.89% |
| Coupled Inverted Vee, as found on He 177 |    | 0 | 0% |
| Other? |    | 1 | 2.63% |
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08-07-2008, 08:21 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| Your favorite type of A/C piston engine? We're talking about for WWII combat types, not types you'd see in great numbers at the airports today-- or in the air in WWI, for that matter. |
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08-07-2008, 08:23 PM
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| Love that radial sound! |
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08-07-2008, 11:38 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| I did other - opposed - because they are so easy to work on!!!!!
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08-07-2008, 11:54 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Barranquilla, Colombia
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| Radial or Vee, that is the question. I know radials have their pros, but vees have them too. I personaly like the streamline posbilities that vees gave to aeronautic design, contrary to de bulky radial engines. I must say the Napier Sabre H24 engine was quite radical and massive... Here is a rare bug... the caproni-campini n.1, a piston engine without props. Caproni Campini N.1 (CC.2) - research aircraft
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08-08-2008, 12:26 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: San Jose, CA
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| FLYBOYJ, You're referring to flat engines/ horizontally opposed engines, right? (not Opposed piston engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia like the Jumo 205/207 used on some Ju 86's) Last edited by kool kitty89; 08-08-2008 at 04:14 AM. |
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08-08-2008, 01:06 AM
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08-08-2008, 01:58 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Campinas - SP
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| radial was the most used and the most reliable engine, but its a very hard question, since war is not only speed(ill prefer the v´s then), but is also reliabilty, endurance, comsuption, resistance against enemy fire...etc and theres also many manufacturers and many diferent qualities of work. flyboy, do have a vw beetle anytime ? you can cross sahara with those stuffs !    oposed too !
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08-08-2008, 05:02 AM
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| I like the look and sound of a big radial engine myself.
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08-08-2008, 05:03 AM
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Maybe he was thinking about Taylorcraft L-2, Aeronca L-3 and Piper L-4? All with flat-4 engines. | |
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08-10-2008, 07:55 AM
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08-10-2008, 08:00 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| I am a radial fan but the 36 litre Griffon makes a nice noise |
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08-10-2008, 09:00 AM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Well since the DB 605 is my favorite engine from World War 2 (because it powers my favorite aircraft), I will have to to go with the inverted Vee.
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08-10-2008, 11:04 AM
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| Between a rock and a hard place if you ask me....I like the radial and the vee's...
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08-11-2008, 07:00 AM
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 | I have always liked the packard merlins, but then again the R-2800s have powered some of my favourite WW2 a/c
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