Aviation Engines: Design - Construction - Operation and Repair

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

PAGES
Brief Consideration of Aircraft Types—Essential Requirements of Aerial Motors—Aviation Engines Must Be Light—Factors Influencing Power Needed—Why Explosive Motors Are Best—Historical—Main Types of Internal Combustion Engines	17-36

CHAPTER II

Operating Principles of Two- and Four-Stroke Engines—Four-cycle Action—Two-cycle Action—Comparing Two- and Four-cycle Types—Theory of Gas and Gasoline Engine—Early Gas-Engine Forms—Isothermal Law—Adiabatic Law—Temperature Computations—Heat and Its Work—Conversion of Heat to Power—Requisites for Best Power Effect	37-59

CHAPTER III

Efficiency of Internal Combustion Engines—Various Measures of Efficiency—Temperatures and Pressures—Factors Governing Economy—Losses in Wall Cooling—Value of Indicator Cards—Compression in Explosive Motors—Factors Limiting Compression—Causes of Heat Losses and Inefficiency—Heat Losses to Cooling Water	60-79

CHAPTER IV

Engine Parts and Functions—Why Multiple Cylinder Engines Are Best—Describing Sequence of Operations—Simple Engines—Four and Six Cylinder Vertical Tandem Engines—Eight and Twelve Cylinder V Engines—Radial Cylinder Arrangement—Rotary Cylinder Forms	80-109

CHAPTER V

Properties of Liquid Fuels—Distillates of Crude Petroleum—Principles of Carburetion Outlined—Air Needed to Burn Gasoline—What a Carburetor Should Do—Liquid Fuel Storage and Supply—Vacuum Fuel Feed< ernal">“Monosoupape” Gnome—German “Gnome” Type—Le Rhone Engine—Renault Air-Cooled Engine—Simplex Model “A” Hispano-Suiza—Curtiss Aviation Motors—Thomas-Morse Model 88 Engine—Duesenberg Engine—Aeromarine Six-Cylinder—Wisconsin Aviation Engines—Hall-Scott Engines—Mercedes Motor—Benz Motor—Austro-Daimler Engine—Sunbeam-Coatalen—Indicating and Measuring Instruments—Air Starting Systems—Electric Starting—Battery Ignition	457-571

INDEX	573

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

AVIATION ENGINES
DESIGN—CONSTRUCTION—REPAIR

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