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Air-Cooled Engines in Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

It is now rather more than three years since I last had the honour of presenting a paper before this Society dealing with air-cooled aero engines. At that time the air-cooled engine had not fully won a place “in the sun,” which may be fairly stated to be the case to-day.

For some years after the war there was a considerable aversion towards the air-cooled aero engine owing to certain types which had been developed during the war which were supposedly air-cooled, but in reality obtained the greater portion of their cooling by means of exorbitant fuel and oil consumption. As lately as four years ago the practical advantages of the air-cooled engine were only tentatively appreciated by the aircraft constructor, and naturally, owing to his somewhat painful experiences in the past in respect of unreliability and high fuel consumption; it required some missionary work and proof in order to persuade him that the new family of air-cooled engines would really perform in the way their designers claimed for them.

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Proceedings
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1929

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References

Note on page 271 * Joint Meeting with the Institution of Automobile Engineers.