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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tail propellers were reduced to one, a seven-cylinder Warner radial engine was installed, the body was decently covered, slicked with windshield and windows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Republic makes the only U.S. pursuit ship that uses an air-cooled radial engine.
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It is not as interesting as a radial engine.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
