Wednesday, October 7, 2015

First U.S. military aircraft engine, 1908


Curtis 4-cylinder water-cooled engine used in the 1908 Signal Corps Dirigible No. 1.  Developing about 25 hp, it drove a tubular steel shaft twenty-two feet long.  Below, its carb--a thing of beauty!




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