radial engine

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The great handicap of the radial engine is that its spreading cylinders create wind resistance and so slow an airplane's speed.

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Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. makes V-type motors for its own planes; Fairchild Aviation Corp. is almost ready to market its Caminez radial engine.

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Ryan Brougham�5-seat cabin monoplane; one-piece wing, braced by 2 pairs of tube struts; radial engine at front of a tubular section starting with sloping windshield; fuselage small; rudder roundish; split undercarriage joined to wing struts.

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Wright engine, the first 14-cylinder, two-row radial engine in commercial use.

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It is not as interesting as a radial engine.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein