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The Superior Air Parts XP-360 is an aircraft engine, designed and produced by Superior Air Parts of Coppell, Texas, United States for use in homebuilt aircraft. [1]The company is owned by the Chinese company Superior Aviation Beijing, which is 60% owned by Chairman Cheng Shenzong and 40% owned by Beijing E-Town, an economic development agency of the municipal government of Beijing.
The Vedeneyev M14P is a Russian nine-cylinder, four-stroke, air-cooled, petrol-powered radial engine. Producing 360 hp (268 kW), its design dates from the 1940s (Kotelnikov 2005), and is itself a development of the Ivchenko AI-14 engine. The engine has been used extensively by the Yakovlev and Sukhoi Design Bureaus.
Aircraft Engine Historical Society www.enginehistory.org -AEHS- publication: "Torque Meter", Vol 7, issues 2, 3, 4. Robert J. Raymond: "Comparison of Sleeve and Poppet-Valve Aircraft Piston Engines", AEHS 2005; Car&Driver, July 1974, pp, 26-29, 112-114 (cover shows a Bricklin car): 'A trick up his sleeve', Charles Fox interviews Mike Hewland.
This is the case on many large aircraft such as the 747, C-17, KC-10, etc. If you are on an aircraft and you hear the engines increasing in power after landing, it is usually because the thrust reversers are deployed. The engines are not actually spinning in reverse, as the term may lead you to believe.
Data from Instruction and Maintenance Manual MZ 202 General characteristics Type: Twin-cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine Bore: 76 mm (2.99 in) Stroke: 69 mm (2.72 in) Displacement: 626 cc (38.20 cu in) Length: 313.5 mm (12.34 in) Width: 299.4 mm (11.79 in) Height: 331.1 mm (13.04 in) Dry weight: 38 kg (84 lb) with starter motor, two carburettors, fuel pump, cooling system and exhaust system ...
An engine-indicating and crew-alerting system (EICAS) [1] is an integrated system used in modern aircraft to provide aircraft flight crew with instrumentation and crew annunciations for aircraft engines and other systems. On EICAS equipped aircraft the "recommended remedial action" is called a checklist.
The engine is a twin cylinder, 360 cc (22.0 cu in), horizontally-opposed four-stroke, liquid-cooled, gasoline engine design, with a poly V belt reduction drive with reduction ratio of 2.76:1. It employs a single electronic ignition and produces 35 hp (26 kW) at 7800 rpm.
Thrust levers in a Boeing 747 Classic. The center and rear levers are used during flight, while the forward levers control reverse thrust.. Thrust levers or throttle levers are found in the cockpit of aircraft, and are used by the pilot, copilot, flight engineer, or autopilot to control the thrust output of the aircraft's engines, by controlling the fuel flow to those engines. [1]