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A flat-four engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-four engine or boxer engine, [1] is a four-cylinder piston engine with two banks of cylinders lying on opposite sides of a common crankshaft. The most common type of flat-four engine is the boxer-four engine, each pair of opposed pistons moves inwards and outwards at the same time.
Continental O-470-13A air-cooled aircraft engine. A flat-six engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-six, is a six-cylinder piston engine with three cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft. The most common type of flat-six engine is the boxer-six engine, where each pair of opposed cylinders moves inwards and outwards at the same ...
This is a list of aircraft engine manufacturers both past and present. ... Junkers Aircraft & engines 1913–1945. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books. pp. ...
This is a list of aircraft manufacturers sorted alphabetically by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers name(s), country and other data, with the known years of operation in parentheses. The ICAO names are listed in bold. Having an ICAO name does not mean that a ...
Lycoming Engines is a major American manufacturer of aircraft engines. With a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania , Lycoming produces a line of horizontally opposed , air-cooled, four, six and eight-cylinder engines including the only FAA -certified aerobatic and helicopter piston engines on the market.
Argus As 16 4-cylinder horizontally-opposed 35 hp [39] Argus As 17; Argus As 014 (aka "Argus 109-014") – pulse jet engine for V-1 flying bomb and Tornado boat; Argus As 044 [37] Argus As 16 4-cylinder inverted inline 40 hp [37] Argus As 17 6-cylinder inverted inline 225 hp / 285 hp [37] Argus As 401 development and renumbering of the As 10 ...
The Lycoming IO-720 engine is a large displacement, horizontally opposed, eight-cylinder aircraft engine featuring four cylinders per side, manufactured by Lycoming Engines. [1] There is no carbureted version of the engine, which would have been designated O-720 and therefore the base model is the IO-720. The IO-720 is the only flat-eight ...
Continental was a major manufacturer of horizontally opposed 'flat four' airplane engines and supplied a similar engine for Sherman tanks during World War II. Apparently the US government contracts continued during the Korean War. As the jet engine began to replace piston engine powered airplanes, Continental began losing their military contracts.