NOUN
- an internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase
How To Use radial engine In A Sentence
- Sitting almost upright on one of its floats, only the severe damage to the front end, where its 14-cylinder, air-cooled radial engine was partially torn away on impact, betrays the violence that saw this aircraft downed.
- Initial drawings showed an aircraft with a tightly cowled radial engine, streamlined fuselage, retractable landing gear and flaps.
- With the big radial engines grumbling, the Mallard eased past a starboard handmarker labelled `Bald Head". CORMORANT
- Surely not a rocket, she thought, then spotted the low-slung gondola with its attached propellers and radial engines.
- The predominant cockpit sound is of the slipstream, rather than the resonant drone of the radial engines.
- Certain American radial engines were made previous to 1914, the principal being the Albatross six-cylinder engines of 50 and 100 horse-powers. A History of Aeronautics
- Piston engines of the Second World War were of two types, air-cooled radial engines and liquid-cooled in-line engines.
- The Navy reasoned that air-cooled radial engines offered added reliability, especially when operating over water.