New Engine Porn... Coupled Bugatti Engines Working Inwards Concert For A Ww1 Plane (Thanks Kim!)
During World War I, Ettore Bugatti designed too built a U-16 aircraft engine. The engine consisted of ii inline eight-cylinder sections mounted side-by-side on a mutual crankcase.
Each eight-cylinder engine department had its ain crankshaft too was built upward of ii four-cylinder blocks. The engine’s ii crankshafts direct engaged a mutual propeller shaft.
Total displacement was 1,485 cu inwards (24.3 L), too the engine produced 400 hp at 2,100 rpm.
Bugatti did non direct maintain the production capacity to industry the engine, too thus licensed production was undertaken inwards French Republic past times a grouping headed past times Peugeot.
An additional license was sold to the U.S.A. (the engine was built every bit the King-Bugatti past times Duesenberg). Developmental too production issues resulted inwards few Bugatti-based U-16 engines beingness built during World War I.
the crankshafts drove the propeller shaft through freewheeling (or overrunning) clutch mechanisms. If ane eight-cylinder engine department were to fail, the clutch would merely disengage the dead section’s crankshaft from driving the propeller shaft too permit the skillful engine department to proceed to orbit power.
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