Mike Nixon gave an informative talk about the Bristol Centaurus, an 18-cylinder, sleeve-valve radial engine producing over 3,000 horsepower, at the March Plane Crazy Saturday event at Mojave Air & ...
If you look at aircraft from the Second World War or earlier, you'll notice that many of them have engines with large frontal areas and cylinders arranged about the propeller crankshaft. This a radial ...
Mid-century classic shares several features familiar to pilots of newer aircraft.