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Suited for ultralight use and single seat light sport aircraft, the engine weighs 86 lbs and produces 40 hp (30 kW). The engine uses a short aluminum crankcase with redesigned oil galleries for improved lubrication. The engine is counterweight balanced with a drop-forged crankshaft.
1940 Popular Science cover illustration of twin 40mm Bofors in Swedish service "New Tools For Army Power", October 1941, Popular Science, pp. 73–74 on testing of U.S. version of 40mm Bofors; 40 mm Automatic Gun M1 (AA) and 40 mm Antiaircraft Gun Carriages M2 and M2A1 TM 9-252; 40 MM Antiaircraft Gun, OP 820, 1943 : Navy Service Manual via ...
Hercules is most known outside Germany for the 1974 Hercules Wankel engine motorcycle, using a Sachs Rotary engine. Sachs took over Victoria, Express and DKW in the 1960s, a few years after "Willy" Sachs, Ernst Sachs son, and prominent member of the SS and friend of senior Nazis, committed suicide 1958. Fichtel & Sachs became a large maker of ...
Today, Fichtel & Sachs is a German manufacturer of automotive parts, producing powertrain and suspension components. In the past the company also having produced ball bearings, motorcycle engines, bicycle parts and – via its subsidiary Sachs Motorcycles – motorcycles, mopeds, [3] motorised bicycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).
The 500 hp, six-cylinder, Continental (or Lycoming Engines), air-cooled, gasoline engine is located in the rear of the vehicle. It was driven by a cross-drive, two-speed Allison transmission . Although the M42 Duster was initially designed for an anti-aircraft role, it proved to be effective against unarmored ground forces in the Vietnam War ...
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The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70, [1] (Bofors 40 mm L/70, Bofors 40 mm/70, Bofors 40/70 and the like), is a multi-purpose autocannon developed by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors (today BAE Systems Bofors) during the second half of the 1940s as a modern replacement for their extremely successful World War II-era Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun-design.
The engine is based on the BMW engine used in the F650GS/G650 models The frame is a split-backbone tubular steel frame. Front forks are Sachs 46 mm upside-down telescopic forks while the rear is a dual swing arm made of pentagonal steel tubing with a single rear shock and progressive linkage, also supplied by Sachs. The compression ratio is 12.3:1.