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The McCulloch O-100-1 is a four-cylinder, air cooled four piston drone engine developed by the McCulloch Aircraft Corporation (later to become the McCulloch Motors Corp.) which was founded 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and later moved to Los Angeles, California. The aircraft corporation was formed from the McCulloch Engineering Company. [2]
Motorenfabrik Oberursel A.G. was a German manufacturer of automobile, locomotive and aircraft engines situated in Oberursel (Taunus), near Frankfurt (Main), Germany.During World War I it supplied a major 100 hp-class rotary engine that was used in a number of early-war fighter aircraft designs.
The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission was established in 1999 to encourage the broadest national and international participation in the celebration of 100 years of powered flight. [153] It publicized and encouraged a number of programmes, projects and events intended to educate people about the history of aviation.
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Aircraft using power components are referred to as powered flight . [ 1 ] Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines , although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many small UAVs have used ...
This is the first truly usable jet engine. The engine flies on a Heinkel He 118 later that year, eventually becoming the first aircraft to be powered by jet power alone. This engine is tested until it burns out after a few months, and a second is readied for flight. 1938: Wagner's axial-flow engine is tested at Junkers.
View history; General What links here; ... (Aircraft Engine & Accessory Development Corporation) ... 6-cylinder, 120-hp, year 1914 [38] Argus As III 6-cylinder ...
The company's first major product was an oil cooler for military aircraft. Garrett designed and produced oil coolers for the Douglas DB-7. [9] Boeing's B-17 bombers, credited with substantially tipping the air war in America's and Great Britain's favor over Europe and the Pacific, were outfitted with Garrett intercoolers, as was the B-25. [12]
Rolls-Royce produced a range of piston engine types for aircraft use in the first half of the 20th century. Production of own-design engines ceased in 1955 with the last versions of the Griffon; licensed production of Teledyne Continental Motors general aviation engines was carried out by the company in the 1960s and 1970s.