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Originally Posted by ProDarwin
Airplane piston engines still use carburetors or mechanical fuel injection - way behind the automotive curve.
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Yes, but much of their innovation has been put into cars as lightweight alloys, engines (which, until then, were unwieldy and low power), and hydraulics.
Sure, now piston airplanes use leaded gasoline and mechanical fuel injection, but you have to understand that ECU control with VVT and the like is hard to program when there is a huge envelope of air pressures, oxygen amounts, etc.