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An aircraft engine is the component of the propulsion system for an aircraft that generates mechanical power. Aircraft engines are almost always either lightweight piston engines or gas turbines. This article is an overview of the basic types of aircraft engines and the design concepts employed in engine development for aircraft.

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On the opening day (8th June 1989) Mikoyan test pilot Anatoliy Kvochur was making a demonstration flight in the single-seater Mig-29 '303' Blue. During the high-alpha/low-speed pass at 160m (525ft) that was to conclude the Fulcrum's aerobatic display, the starborad engine surged, belching a sheet of flame. Kvochur immediately selected full afterburner for the working engine; however at 180km/h (111mph) he had insufficient rudder and ailereon authority to counter the trust asymmetry and the result was inevitably an irrecoverable departure. The engine failed at 13hrs 44mins 57sec; the stricken fighter immediately yawed and rolled to starboard, the nose "falling through" until the aircraft entered a vertical dive at 13:45:01. 2.5 seconds later Kvochur ejected at 92m (302ft) after making sure that the aircraft would not hit the spectators. At 13:45:05 the fighter hit the ground beside the runway erupting into a fireball. The pilot landed a mere 30m (98ft) from the wreckage, the ejection seat impacted right next to him. To give a credit where credit is due, the airport's rescue & firefighting team was on the scene 55 seconds after the crash. Kvochur was rushed to hospital, but was released the same day with nothing worse than bruises and a cut above his right eyebrow from the oxygen mask. Indeed he had been extremely lucky as he had ejected oustide the seat's operating envelope, not to mention the proximity of the fireballs and the falling ejection seat. Yet the incident spoke <b>...</b>
2.42 min. | 4.81 user rating		 Hand made, scratch built, scale working WWI Bentley BR2 rotary aircraft engine. I filmed this in York PA in 2004. Update: If you guys want, I'll try to post stills I took of this engine. If there's interest, I'll post them.
0.58 min. | 4.80 user rating		 Mazda 13b turbo block rotary with Mistral intake, RWS Redrive, EM2, EC2 ported with a medium street port
1.32 min. | 4.54 user rating		 En 1937, lOberingenieur Blaser met au point le premier prototype du Fw 190, doté dun moteur « en étoile » BMW 139. Ce type de moteur est préféré à celui dit « en ligne » de la firme Daimler-Benz (il sagit du DB 601), puisquil offre, daprès eux, de plus grandes possibilités de développement. Cest dans les environs de Brême, le 1er juin 1939 que le premier prototype (Fw 190 A-0) prendra lair, avec aux commandes le pilote dessai Hans Sander. Il en résulta des problèmes de surchauffe du moteur, du fait de limposante casserole dhélice. De plus, le moteur BMW manquait singulièrement de puissance, ce qui força les ingénieurs de Focke-Wulf à le remplacer par une version plus puissante, le BMW 801, équipé dune soufflante de refroidissement. Notons également que les 9 premiers appareils de pré-série avaient une surface alaire plus réduite (15m²) comparé avec la version de série définitive (18,30m²). Une fois ces modifications effectuées, un nouvel essai satisfaisant se déroula sur laérodrome de Rechlin, au cours de lannée 1940 : aucun problème particulier ne sera décelé par les ingénieurs allemands. Larmement de lengin était néanmoins très léger et également insuffisant, puisquil ne se composait que de 4 mitrailleuses MG 17 synchronisées de 7,92mm, et malgré le mécontentement des pilotes de la Luftwaffe à ce sujet, une centaine de Fw 190 A-1 sortiront des chaînes de montage de Hambourg et de Brême, et ce jusquà la fin du mois de mai 1941. Le moteur de cette version de série sera <b>...</b>
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A single seat ultralight aircraft which i have built under 1 lakh rupees only using yamaha RD 350 cc 2 stroke engine.i have just completed my engineering from oist bhopal,i wanted to be a pilot so i made my own homebuilt ultralight aircraft as college project that too cheaper than tata nano car and even motorcycles. contact: harshpaliwal87@gmail.com
1.28 min. | 4.57 user rating		 You will enjoy this video ONLY if you are really into the mechanics of large WWII era piston aircraft engines. You need high quality sound for this. Nothing like a 2100 horsepower aircraft engine starting up.
1.52 min. | 4.79 user rating		 The spin was supposed to be a normal erect spin to the right, but for various unintentional reasons the spin went flat, up until that point I had never flat spun an aircraft. I eventualy mananged to get the aircraft into a normal erect spin from which I was able to recover. This aircraft is not fitted with an electric starter motor, so I was unable to restart the engine. During the "flare" to land the main undercarriage caught the top wires of a barbed wire fence that was invisible to me. After coming to rest inverted I waited 20mins for the rescue services to come and right the aircraft so I was able to exit via the outward opening canopy. The aircraft rotated 26 times total, I was extremely dissorientated after the recovery to straight and level flight, and was unable to read the instruments. From the video I estimate I recovered at about 700ft from an entry altitude of 3500ft. If you listen carefully you will hear me say:"I think this is it". At that stage I did not think I would be able to recover. However I continued to try various control inputs based on the aircraft attitude and rotational rate, which eventually effected a recovery. My thanks go to the emergency services that found me and allowed my escape.
2.17 min. | 4.94 user rating		 Pilot Szabó "Topi" Zoltán survived. He stayed 1 minute after the blast in the burning mig, so he managed out the aircraft from civil areas. He won the "as the crow flies" trophy on riat 2003. Now he can fly only on subsonic planes cause the spinal-injurys he suffered at the ejecting. The video was made by another pilot on the ground. This was a practice, not an airshow. The inspection cleared up, that it was an engine failure (a blade blocked in the engine), and there was no other way out from this accident; the MIG factory approved that too. They have undertaken to renew some older MIG-29s of Hungary. [The aircraft "landed" hard by a farmer, who was just working there; this was the second time in his life, that a mig29 crashed on his land, he said maybe he shouldn't work anymore next to the AFB. Unfortunately the pilot (Rácz Zsolt) died in the crash on 28.07.1998; there exists a video about this too, www.youtube.com ].
2.88 min. | 4.61 user rating		 Quiet Aviation has put the convenience, power and reliability of Detroit's best engineering into a complete package that can be installed in a variety of experimental aircraft. Visit www.quietaviation.com to learn more about this unique and groundbreaking aviation technology.
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