Achates Opposed Piston 2 Stroke
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Achates Opposed Piston 2 Stroke
Thoughts anyone on a aeronautical application?
Numbers being talked about are double the efficiency over the best diesel engines today.
Numbers being talked about are double the efficiency over the best diesel engines today.
Thoughts anyone on a aeronautical application
https://oldmachinepress.com/2015/09/...rcraft-engine/
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I think he probably means “rather unusual” because something is unique, or it’s not unique.
Anyway, a child I used to enjoy the sound of the Commer “knocker” truck engines (and in some buses). A Deltic locomotive ran through our village just a few days ago, the sound is very distinctive.
Anyway, a child I used to enjoy the sound of the Commer “knocker” truck engines (and in some buses). A Deltic locomotive ran through our village just a few days ago, the sound is very distinctive.
Superior Air Parts had a proposal to market two versions of a three cylinder opposed piston aircraft uncerified engine as recently as 2015 rated at 100 and 125HP, seems now to have been withdrawn as their web site now makes no reference. As for unusual or unique, no, I wouldn't call sleeve or desmodromicvalves, or turbo compounds unique or unusual either. Perhaps I've lived too long and seen these "unique and unusual" pieces of machinery in daily use earning some body a living.
