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This is a neat argument as no car on the road today can match the power/weight/TBO of a WW-II aero engine. They can make more power per unit of displacement, but not much more power per unit of piston crown area. Then when modern car engines are run at power levels that a WW-II engine can last 2000+ hours, they grenade in minutes! See the trouble that the modified car engines into airplane engines have had over the last fifty years or so! I've seen twenty or thirty come and go at Oshkosh over the last four or five decades. If they could make the numbers they claim, why do they all go out of business?
I have a friend who has a $45,000 Honda four cylinder, turbo engine that makes almost 1,000 HP, or so the time slips and Quarter Jr computer program states, but it is not nearly as fast as my 656HP Ram-Jet 572 from the roll on and certainly has not lasted so long either. But if it was required to last 2000 hours TBO and have a flat rated altitude of 41,000' it would have about 100 HP! ( Just guessing since I do not know the internal dimensions!)
Well, yes it does! It's not the Hydro-Carbons that make the differences, it's the aromatic compounds and Tetra-Ethel Lead that make the real differences and the Germans were years behind everyone else!
I'm not sure that just one book will be able to describe only DB engines of ww2, let alone every important engine of the ww2.
Setright's book is tad on the expensive side, at 600 USD
I have both, and have mixed feelings about them.
BMW did make at least one cast block engine if not two in the early 30s but the one that had the most work done was similar to the Jumo 210 in size/power. Having 3 companies building competing inverted V-12 liquid cooled engines and nobody building large radials was probably not a good idea.
That's what I am surprised by. The BMW VI (BMW VI - Wikipedia) was probably the most successful of the 20's to early 30's German V12's and yet BMW switched to making P&W's under license.
That is one I am not familiar with so we will have to wait for Tomo.Is "BMW Aero Engines: Milestones in aviation from the beginnings to the present" the book that Tomo was recommending?
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Is "BMW Aero Engines: Milestones in aviation from the beginnings to the present" the book that Tomo was recommending?
I was just shuddering at the cost of "Vee's for Victory"!
Have you read Victor Bingham's book "Major piston aero engines of WWII" or Allied Aircraft Piston Engines of World War II
by Graham White both are a bit more reasonable.
Keep an eye out, Setright's book varies wildly in price - I got a copy for £75 not so long ago.