I think the Sea Fury & some other tightly cowled Centaurus powered a/c
used fans. Didn't the Constellation use fans too?


(Stephen "FPilot" Bierce) wrote in message ...
(jt) wrote:

The fw190 had a relatively compact, streamlined housing
for its radial engine, apparently due to an extra fan
at the cooling air intake. If this was so successful
why hasn't it been done more often? I may have noticed
that in more recent aerobatic models from east europe...

The Skyraider also had the extra cooling fans, IIRC. But most of the radial
engine applications after the war were for transport planes (which could afford
to have larger cowlings), cropdusters (which could go without cowls) and some
helicopters (which had different cooling systems).

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