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Radial Air-Cooled Aero Engines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2016

A. H. R. Fedden
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Although the static air-cooled radial engine is by no means an innovation irr the history of aero-engine development, its career has been somewhat chequered. Some ten years ago several practical comparatively low-powered air-cooled radials were produced and successfully flown, but they were ousted by the rotary engine on the score of power/weight ratio.

When in 1917 it was found that the limit of the air-cooled rotary had been reached, a demand arose for an engine of the same characteristics of manoeuvrability, compactness and light weight as this type, but of much higher power, and with a general all-round performance and fuel consumption comparable with the water-cooled engine of that date.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 28 , Issue 160 , April 1924 , pp. 260 - 267
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1924

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