title: History of Aircraft Piston Engines : Aircraft Piston Engines from the Manly Balzer to the Continental Tiara (McGraw-Hill Series in Aviation)
author: Herschel Smith
description: Shows the development of aircraft piston engines from the earliest to more recent ones by brand. Nice diagrams, many details
zlib_text: A HISTORY OF AIRCRAFT
  PISTON ENGINES
  
  AIRCRAFT 
  PISTON ENGINES
  From the Manly Balzer 
  to the Continental Tiara
  HERSCHEL SMITH
  Sunflower University Press.
  1531 YUMA • MANHATTAN, KANSAS 66502-4228, USA
  
  Main power
  shown the arrangement o f the gearing for the airscrew shafts and the 
  drive fro m  the turbine, the latter feeding-in its power through an 
  in fin ite ly  variable ratio drive and an epicyclic reduction gear.
  PRINCIPAL DATA
  Twelve-cylinder, tw o-stroke valveless diesel engine com pounded w ith  three-stage turbine driving both crankshaft and axial compressor. 
  Specified fuels, 
  diesel pool gas o il, w ide-cut petrol (D. Eng. R.D. 2486), or kerosine (d. Eng. R.D. 2482); lubricating oil to  D. Eng. R.D. 
  2 47 28 /2.
  Overall height, 40 in., overall w id th , 56 1/4 in; overall length, 119 in ; cylin d er bore, 6 in; stroke, 7 3 /8  in ; swept volum e, 41.1 L. axial 
  compressor, 12 stages w ith  mass flo w  o f 13 Ib/sec and pressure ratio of 8 .2 5 :1 ; boost pressure. 89 Ib/sq i