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Diesel aircraft engines and are the light jets pushing out the twins?
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September 17th 04, 08:22 PM
Roy Smith
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In article ,
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Think of it this way - a model airplane engine can be made to run with
1/20 of a cubic inch (.049 cu inch to even .010 cu inch), but piston
engine aircraft became impractical above a few thousand HP. That is
the range of practicality for a piston concept.
It is certainly possible to build much larger piston engines than that.
How about
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/
Roy Smith