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Radial
Vee
Inverted Vee
H engine (Sabre, for instance)
Coupled Inverted Vee, as found on He 177
Other?
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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.
Love that radial sound!
I did other - opposed - because they are so easy to work on!!!!!
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
Last edited by Jgonzalez; 08-07-2008 at 11:13 PM.
B17 pilot: What the hell was that!!
Coopilot: It must be one of them new jet-fighters!!
Gunner: Thy're too fast!!
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 03:14 AM.
I almost put that as an option, because there were a few WWII planes, especially the L-types, that used them. . . .Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ
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 !
What are you referring to?especially the L-types, that used them
I like the look and sound of a big radial engine myself.
Maybe he was thinking about Taylorcraft L-2, Aeronca L-3 and Piper L-4?
All with flat-4 engines.
Like on the O-200 or IO-540.
I am a radial fan but the 36 litre Griffon makes a nice noise
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.
fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"
Between a rock and a hard place if you ask me....I like the radial and the vee's...
Jan "Felicis Tredecim"
"I´m going back to the front to relax"
"THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT"
"Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!"
"When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"
I have always liked the packard merlins, but then again the R-2800s have powered some of my favourite WW2 a/c
"Success is nothing more than taking advantage of an opportunity." - Hitman! - The Technical Guide for the Independent Contractor.
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