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Old October 11th 06, 06:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
Emily
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Default Why are multiple engines different?

karl gruber wrote:
"Emily" wrote in message
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Jim Macklin wrote:
All internal combustion engines work the same. A turbine just does it as
a series of continuous events in different sections of the engine and a
piston engine does one at a time so power is produced only 1/4 of the
time in a 4 cycle and 1/2 the time in a two cycle.
I'm going to print some T-shirts...

"SUCK
SQUEEZE
BANK and
BLOW

Is there a reason you continually post information that I already know in
my direction?


Emily, PLEASE............this is a family oriented newsgroup!

Karl


Actually, that was Jim that wrote that. I'm not that crass.

Oh, who am I kidding? But I can't take credit for it this time.