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• W8
  ...otorbike]]s. It is this W3 engine which also powered the Blériot XI, the [[aircraft]] used by [[Louis Blériot]] when on the 25th of July, 1909, he made the fi The 1917 Napier Lion aircraft had a first [[W12]] engine.
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• Sleeve valve
  ...[[Willys-Knight]] car and light truck, and saw substantial use in 1940s [[aircraft engine]]s, but subsequently fell from use due to advances in poppet-valve t ...does the piston and the valve no good at all. Even in "non-interference" engines, at some point the valve head can simply part from the valve stem due to th
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  ...] for other uses of this term, and [[rotary engine]] for the World War I [[aircraft engine]]s by that name.'' ...'rotary engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] that does not use [[piston]]s in the way a [[reciprocating engine]] does, but instead uses one or more
  10 KB (1,627 words) - 08:32, 2 October 2009
• Engine
  ...|English]] between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'. ==History of engines==
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• Marine engine
  ...|English]] between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'. ==History of engines==
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• Pushrod engine
  ...sion cam-in-block design, and is the [[archetype]] for most modern pushrod engines. Generally L-head engines use a small chamber on one side of the cylinder to carry the valves. This h
  10 KB (1,635 words) - 08:54, 4 August 2009
• Four-cylinder
  ...h are permitted to expand. The expanding gases are used to directly move a piston, turbine blades, rotor(s), or the [[engine]] itself thus doing useful work. Internal combustion engines can be powered by any [[fuel]] that can be combined with an "[[oxidizer]]"
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• Wankel engine
  ...s smooth high-rpm power from a compact, lightweight engine; however Wankel engines are criticized for poor [[fuel efficiency]] and [[emissions standard|exhaus ...[Mercedes-Benz C111|C111]] concept car, only [[Mazda]] has produced Wankel engines in large numbers. As of [[2005]], the engine is only available in the [[Maz
  23 KB (3,604 words) - 09:49, 2 August 2009
• Automobile self starter
  ...ull away immediately, or else risk a broken wrist, or worse. Moreover, as engines evolved, they became larger and compression ratios increased, making hand c ...e this design weighs less, it has also been adapted to some light aircraft engines, where minimizing weight is very important.
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• Supercharger
  *Piston ...e first person to patent a forced-induction system for internal combustion engines. His first superchargers were based on a twin-rotor air-pump design first p
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• Internal-combustion engine
  ...ber, which are permitted to expand. The expanding gases are used to move a piston, turbine blades, rotor, or the engine itself. ...ons are called oil engines. However, gasoline engines are often called gas engines for short. The only limitations are that the fuel must be easily transporta
  20 KB (3,085 words) - 13:24, 8 October 2009
• Ralph DePalma
  ...g for nearly 196 of the 200 laps, his [[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]] cracked a piston and only 2 laps remaining, he and his mechanic had to push the car across t ...ring Company in Detroit to build race cars and engines for automobiles and aircraft.
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• Ignition system
  ...cient to ignite the fuel spontaneously. All conventional petrol (gasoline) engines, by contrast, require an ignition system. The ignition system is usually sw The earliest petrol engines used a very crude ignition system. This often took the form of a copper or
  15 KB (2,376 words) - 14:22, 24 September 2009
• Cam-in-block
  The '''cam-in-block''' [[valvetrain]] layout of [[piston engine]]s is one where the [[camshaft]] is placed within the [[cylinder blo ...Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, and Cummins produce cam-in-block or pushrod engines in any large numbers, although GM in particular has several OHV engine fami
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• Cam in block
  ...sion cam-in-block design, and is the [[archetype]] for most modern pushrod engines. Generally L-head engines use a small chamber on one side of the cylinder to carry the valves. This h
  11 KB (1,698 words) - 08:59, 8 October 2009
• V8
  [[Image:Aero4G11.jpg|thumb|250px|The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration]] The V8 is a very common configuration for large [[automobile]] engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 4 litres in displacement and in automobile use have go
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• Diesel engine
  ==How diesel engines work== ...to heat up rapidly, which increases its pressure, which in turn forces the piston downwards. The [[connecting rod]] transmits this motion to the [[crankshaf
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• Partenavia
  P.68B - Two 150kW (200hp) Lycoming IO360A1B fuel injected flat four piston engines driving two blade constant speed propellers. P.68TC - Two 155kW (210hp) tur ...first flew on May 25 1970 and demonstrated performance similar to that of aircraft in its class (such as the Seneca) which had retractable undercarriage, but
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• Internal combustion engine
  ...arate working fluid, which then in turn does work, for example by moving a piston. ...s, most [[rocket]]s and many [[gas turbine]]s are also internal combustion engines.
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• Engine Control Unit
  ...[[Engine knocking|knock]], a condition which is potentially destructive to engines, and "judges" it to be the result of the ignition timing being too early in ...k" requirement of the moment. In this case the knock/ping results from the piston not being able to move downward as fast as the flame front is expanding.
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