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    An axial engine (sometimes known as a barrel engine or Z-crank engine) is a type of reciprocating engine with pistons arranged around an output shaft...
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    centrifugal compressors). Axial compressors are integral to the design of large gas turbines such as jet engines, high speed ship engines, and small scale power...
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    high-compression jet engine use axial compressors for their high efficiency. In the axial compressor the air flows parallel to the axis of rotation. Axial compressors...
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    Swashplate (redirect from Swashplate engine)
    axial engine in place of a crankshaft to translate the motion of a piston into rotary motion. Such engines are the only variation of the cam engine to...
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    engine Opposed-piston engine Axial engine Cam engine Revolving cylinder engine Swing-piston engine Thermo-magnetic motor Heat engine for a view of the thermodynamics...
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    Microturbo TRI 60 (category 1970s turbojet engines)
    generation of engines, the "tri-axial" engines, were named that way because they featured only three simple compressor sections. The engine overall only...
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  • almost all axial engines, where the cylinders are arranged parallel to the engine axis, in one or two rings. The purpose of such engines was usually...
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    General Electric Passport (category General Electric aircraft engines)
    General Electric CF34. A smaller scaled CFM LEAP, it is a twin-spool axial engine with a 5.6:1 bypass ratio and a 45:1 overall pressure ratio and is noted...
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    The Engine Alliance GP7000 is a turbofan jet engine manufactured by Engine Alliance, a joint venture between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney. It is...
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    also for an axial fan to force air through the radiator. In automobiles and motorcycles with a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine, a radiator is...
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    Turbojet (redirect from Turbojet engine)
    Ohain patented a similar engine in 1935. His design, an axial-flow engine, as opposed to Whittle's centrifugal flow engine, was eventually adopted by...
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    to power an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Maxime Guillaume. His engine was an axial-flow turbojet, but was never constructed, as it would have required...
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  • an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Frenchman Maxime Guillaume. His engine was an axial-flow turbojet. In 1923, Edgar Buckingham of the US National Bureau...
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    Engine Company Ltd. – prev. Statax-Motor of Zurich) Statax 3cyl 10 hp axial Statax 5cyl 40 hp axial Statax 7cyl 80 hp axial Statax 10cyl 100 hp axial...
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    Junkers Jumo 004 (category 1940s turbojet engines)
    world's first production turbojet engine in operational use, and the first successful axial compressor turbojet engine. Some 8,000 units were manufactured...
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  • Rigid case construction installed engine not adversely affected by axial bending loads from inlet on TO rotation. The engine had relatively large clearances...
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    producing engines for automobiles, motorcycles and aircraft since 1917, when the company began production of an inline-six aircraft engine. They have...
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    General Electric J79 (category General Electric aircraft engines)
    The General Electric J79 is an axial-flow turbojet engine built for use in a variety of fighter and bomber aircraft and a supersonic cruise missile. The...
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    Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 (category Axial-compressor gas turbine engines)
    Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor. It was an extremely advanced...
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    Pump-jet (redirect from Pump-jet engine)
    vessel into the engines. Water enters the pump through this inlet. The pump can be of a centrifugal design for high speeds, or an axial flow pump for low...
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    This article briefly describes the components and systems found in jet engines. Major components of a turbojet including references to turbofans, turboprops...
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    Allison J35 (category Allison aircraft engines)
    J35 was the United States Air Force's first axial-flow (straight-through airflow) compressor jet engine. Originally developed by General Electric (GE...
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    gearbox. Two oil pumps were installed behind the engine, which in turn drove two oil engines. An axial engine drive transmitted the power to the rear drive...
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  • aeronautical engineer and inventor, who designed several innovative axial engines. Redrup was born in Newport, Wales in 1878, to wealthy parents. His...
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    The straight-six engine (also referred to as an inline-six engine; abbreviated I6 or L6) is a piston engine with six cylinders arranged in a straight line...
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    CM-32 is armed with a 40 mm automatic grenade launcher and a 7.62 mm co-axial machinegun, both mounted in a remote weapons station. In 2012 Chung-Hsin...
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    the same as in the combustion chamber of a reciprocating engine. With circumferential or axial flow cooling, the temperature difference remains tolerable...
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    hydrogen in rocket engines, because of its much lower density than other propellants which usually use centrifugal pump designs. Axial pumps are also commonly...
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    takes place Axial fan design Gas turbine Turbine engine failure Variable cycle engine Marshall Brain (April 2000). "How Gas Turbine Engines Work". howstuffworks...
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    Lyulka AL-21 (category Lyulka aircraft engines)
    The Lyulka AL-21 is an axial flow turbojet engine created by the Soviet Design Bureau named for its chief designer Arkhip Lyulka. The AL-21 is closely...
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