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The 2si 460 is a family of in-line twin-cylinder, two-stroke, single ignition, aircraft engines that were designed for ultralight aircraft. [1]The basic engine was originally designed and produced by ILO-Motorenwerke of Germany and was later acquired by the AMW Cuyuna Engine Company of Beaufort, South Carolina and marketed under the Cuyuna brand name.
A Jabiru 5100 flat-8 four-stroke aircraft engine with dual ignition, with two spark plugs per cylinder and two distributors.. Dual Ignition is a system for spark-ignition engines, whereby critical ignition components, such as spark plugs and magnetos, are duplicated.
Global Motors originally designed a Half VW engine for use in light aircraft. The company and its designs were then sold to Mosler Motors. Warren Mosler specialized in racing engines and added the engine to the list of products eventually marketed under the company name Total Engine Concepts. The engine was dropped from production in 1998. [1]
A straight-twin engine, also known as an inline-twin, vertical-twin, inline-2, or parallel-twin, is a two-cylinder piston engine whose cylinders are arranged in a line along a common crankshaft. Straight-twin engines are primarily used in motorcycles; other uses include automobiles, marine vessels, snowmobiles, jet skis , all-terrain vehicles ...
The Citroën 2CV, produced from 1948 to 1990, was one of the first front-wheel drive cars to use a flat engine. The 2CV was powered by an air-cooled boxer-twin engine. Also in 1948, the Panhard Dyna X was released with front-wheel drive and an air-cooled boxer-twin engine.
Data from OPERATORS MANUAL FOR ENGINE TYPES 447, 503 & 582 General characteristics Type: two-stroke air-cooled aeroengine Bore: 67.5 mm (2.66 in) Stroke: 61 mm (2.4 in) Displacement: 426.5 cc (26.64 cu in) Dry weight: 26.8 kg (59 lb) (dry, no exhaust system) Components Valvetrain: piston ports Fuel system: pneumatic pump pressurized Fuel type: regular autofuel Oil system: premixed in the fuel ...
The Franklin 2 series of American two-cylinder air-cooled horizontally opposed aircraft engines were produced in the 1930s and 1940s.
For an aero engine, advantages of the inverted layout include improved access to cylinder heads and manifolds for the ground crew, [5] [6] [7] having the centre of mass of a multi-bank engine lower in the engine and, for engines mounted in the nose, improved visibility for the pilot and placing the widest part of a multi-bank engine closer to ...