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Old 11-17-2018, 03:17 PM   #7 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Where would you find a 3-cylinder radial? I don't think I've ever seen a radial engine that wasn't for aircraft use, and AFAIK the main benefit of the radial layout is that you got all the cylinders out in the airflow for cooling*. The few liquid-cooled ones I could find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...radial_engines were either pre-1920s, or experimental WWII designs. (Except for one Soviet one.)

*Which of course means that, for automotive use, you have to supply the airflow somehow.
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