Viale 35 hp

The Viale 35 hp was a five-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft use designed and built in France by the Italian engine designer Spirito Mario Viale, that was first run around 1910. It developed 35 horsepower (26 kW). Three- and seven-cylinder variants of the same engine were built, although little is known about them.[1]

35 hp
Preserved Viale 35 hp at the London Science Museum
Type Radial aero engine
National origin France
Manufacturer Spirito Mario Viale
First run c.1910
Major applications Avro Type F

Applications

Engines on display

A preserved Viale 35 hp engine is on display at the Science museum in London. This engine is believed to be the unit that powered the sole example of the Avro Type F and was later used in the prototype Bristol Babe designed by Frank Barnwell.

Specifications (Viale 35 hp)

General characteristics

Components

Performance

  • Power output: 35 hp (26 kW)
gollark: People blame obesity on lots of things: food changes, chemical contaminants of some sort, people doing less physical activity (which is not entirely due to the internet).
gollark: Nonrandom number generator.
gollark: That's an assumption and 0.75.
gollark: Other than that, I like being able to look up things conveniently and talk to people who are not physically nearby, which is most of them.
gollark: If the internet ceased to exist, there would be an immediate and huge economic crisis as international trade imploded.

See also

Comparable engines

Related lists

References

Notes
  1. Lumsden 2003, p. 231.

Bibliography
  • Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-85310-294-6.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.