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...'''horizontally opposed-ten''', is a ten-[[Cylinder (engine)|cylinder]] [[piston engine]] with five cylinders on each side of a central [[crankshaft]]. There are no known flat-ten engines which reached production. ...

|type=[[Piston]] [[aircraft engine|aero-engine]] ...pm, and weighed around 2,370&nbsp;kg.<ref name="Gunston, World Encyc. Aero Engines" >Gunston, p. 82</ref> ...

...xternal heat-source, and external heat-sinks. In this design the Displacer piston is used without a regenerator.]] ...top dead centre]] to being flattened in the perpendicular direction to the piston axis at [[bottom dead centre]]. ...

...alized in the manufacture of [[Opposed-piston engine|opposed-piston Diesel engines]] for [[United States Navy]] vessels and railroad locomotives since 1932. T ...gement#A1A-A1A|A1A-A1A]] || FM 38D-10<br />[[Opposed-piston engine|opposed-piston]] || {{convert|2000|hp|MW|2|abbr=on}} || [[File:Olympian Hiawatha 1947.JPG| ...

{{Short description|Phase of an engine piston's travel}} ...engine's cycle (e.g. compression stroke, exhaust stroke), during which the piston travels from top to bottom or vice versa. ...

...lso known as a '''horizontally opposed-sixteen''', is a sixteen-cylinder [[piston engine]] with eight cylinders on each side of a central [[crankshaft]]. ...e less common than [[V16 engine]]s, with only a couple of prototype racing engines using a flat-sixteen layout. ...

{{Short description|Pin that holds connecting rod to piston head}} ...in connection at connecting rod. Gudgeon pin fits into [[gudgeon]]s inside piston.]] ...

{{Short description|Categorization system of internal combustion engines}} ...gines]] are often categorized by the number of rotors present. Gas turbine engines are often categorized into turbojets, turbofans, turboprops and turboshafts ...

{{Short description|Piston engine with 18 cylinders in vee configuration}} ...is an eighteen-cylinder [[Internal combustion engine#Reciprocating engines|piston engine]] where two banks of nine cylinders are arranged in a [[V engine|V c ...

...mon configuration is for a crankpin to serve one cylinder. However, many V engines have each crankpin shared by each pair of cylinders. ...ittle end" (which connects to the [[Gudgeon pin|wrist/gudgeon pin]] in the piston). ...

{{Short description|Horizontally-opposed 12-cylinder piston engine}} ...also known as a '''horizontally opposed-twelve''', is a twelve-cylinder [[piston engine]] with six cylinders on each side of a central [[crankshaft]]. ...

...by the German manufacturer [[Junkers]]. It entered service in 1932. Later engines in the series, the '''Jumo 205''', '''Jumo 206''', '''Jumo 207''' and '''Ju ...; 2 – Junkers Motoren.<ref name=kay>{{cite book |title= Junkers Aircraft & Engines 1913–1945|last=Kay|first=Antony| year=2004|publisher=Putnam Aeronautical Bo ...

{{Short description|Cylinder layout for a piston engine}} ...' (also called '''inline engine''') is a configuration of multi-cylinder [[piston engine]] where all of the [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] are arranged in a ...

...stant-volume combustion, similar to the [[Otto cycle]] used in most piston engines, is considerably more fuel efficient than the [[Brayton cycle|constant-pres ...lthough most of the output in the expected [[turbojet]] engine format - as opposed to a [[turboshaft]] - would be extracted as [[thrust]], and the turbine on ...

{{Short description|American piston aircraft engine}} |type= [[Aircraft engine|Piston aircraft engine]] ...

...he entire engine. The design has also been referred to as a '''oscillating piston engine''', '''vibratory engine''' when the pistons oscillate instead of rot ...e have been no successful demonstrations of claimed efficiency or that the engines are durable enough for practical use. ...

{{For|horizontally-opposed engines|flat engine}} ...ps, military tanks, and factories. Current manufacturers of opposed-piston engines include [[Cummins]], [[Achates Power]], and [[Fairbanks-Morse|Fairbanks-Mor ...

...ey Prince (H-16)]] & [[Fairey Monarch|Fairey P.24 Monarch]], where the two engines retained separate drives, driving [[Contra-rotating propellers]] through se ...H engine is a relatively rare layout, with its main use being in aircraft engines during the 1930s and 1940s. The 1966 [[Lotus 43]] Formula One car used a [[ ...

|eng1 type=2-cyl. horizontally opposed air-cooled piston engine |eng1 kw=20<!-- prop engines --> ...

{{short description|1990s Australian piston aircraft engine}} |type=[[Reciprocating engine|Piston]] [[Aircraft engine|aero engine]] ...