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Hi!: the Steam Powered Airplane was the Besler, in an airplane originally fitted with an OX-5.
Steam cycle is inherently less efficient than Otto or other ICE, but weight of Besler steam machine was ...

Hi!: a Chinese toy maker is offering a model Stirling Engine with the shape of a multicylinder aircraft radial engine. Salut + [/img]

Hi!: Douglas Self maintains an interesting page on mechanical oddities, including engines. The book: 'Some unusual engines', by J K Setright is a classic in the field.
Wobble plate motors, Scottish ...

Hi!: someone offering a batch of six or seven workable Bristol Hercules Sleeve-Valve Cylinders, pistons, rods, junk heads, sleeves, sleeve drive mechanisms?

It's for assembling a flat-six truck or ...

Hi!: me too!
Manuals, you can find it, CD-ROM or paper versions, in ebay.com, some French sites offer documents about the SNECMA produced engines under Bristol license for the Noratlas transport.
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Hi!: some of the statements may be in contradiction with other works: both H Ricardo an M Hewland found that the mechanical losses of a SSV engine are reduced respect a Poppet-Valve engine.

Regard ...

Hi!: I beg your pardon, as I should have had a look by myself for the subject of Trans-sonic propeller in a web browser, it would have yielded enough info for me. Another question: does it make any s ...

I vaguely remember having read that during WWII, German engineers were convinced that propellers would be useful up to airplane speeds not too much below Mach-1, and also it seems that something like ...

The very good article by K McCutcheon on Liquid-Cooled Pratt & Whitney engines gives more than ample information about the way Sleeves were produced in the US, and with a mix of the sleeve-valve e ...

The subject of the XIXth Century Otto three cylinder IC double expansion engine is well discussed in the book by T Suzuki "The Romance of Engines", SAE. The double and triple expansion conce ...

Yeah, the content of this article is different from the one by Biermann in NACA, it was published in the proceedings of the Automobile Engineers' Society (London), year session's volume.

I've finally realized that The Institution of Automobile Engineers was different from SAE, and that the article by Lamarque on cooling fins for motorcycle engines, that appears in the references list ...

Hi !: thank you for your suggestion. I did make a fishing in the ESPACENET patent database, and found many of them related to SSV engines, at least I had a lot of fun doing it. I put in the Wikipedia ...

Hi Kimble !: I read with interest the sections of the book on Continental engines and its people dealing with the subject of Single Sleeve Valve ( SSV ) engines. To my surprise, the author points that ...

Thank you for your information Kimble. It was surprising to me, as my idea was that Bristol and Napier Sleeve-Valve engines were the top of aviation reciprocating engines, in terms of performance, rel ...