radial engine

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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