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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Its big radial engine is cowled to cut its head resistance to the irreducible minimum.

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It was a yellow two-seater with a 450-horsepower radial engine, a low wing, and retractable landing gear.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins