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  • Radial

    20 51.28%
  • Vee

    8 20.51%
  • Inverted Vee

    7 17.95%
  • H engine (Sabre, for instance)

    3 7.69%
  • Coupled Inverted Vee, as found on He 177

    0 0%
  • Other?

    1 2.56%
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Your favorite type of A/C piston engine?

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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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    Love that radial sound!

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    I did other - opposed - because they are so easy to work on!!!!!

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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.
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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)
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    Quote Originally Posted by FLYBOYJ View Post
    I did other - opposed - because they are so easy to work on!!!!!
    I almost put that as an option, because there were a few WWII planes, especially the L-types, that used them. . . .

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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.

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    oposed too !

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    especially the L-types, that used them
    What are you referring to?

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    I like the look and sound of a big radial engine myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kool kitty89 View Post
    What are you referring to?

    Maybe he was thinking about Taylorcraft L-2, Aeronca L-3 and Piper L-4?

    All with flat-4 engines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kool kitty89 View Post
    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)
    Like on the O-200 or IO-540.


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    I am a radial fan but the 36 litre Griffon makes a nice noise

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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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    Between a rock and a hard place if you ask me....I like the radial and the vee's...

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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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