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The nickname pancake engine has been applied to several types of internal combustion engine, including: Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar jet engine. Detroit Diesel Series 71 (horizontal version) Electro-Motive Diesel#EMD 'pancake' diesels 16-184 and 16-338 engines. Nordberg Manufacturing Company radial diesel engine. Volkswagen air-cooled engine.
The Type 3 engine is a variation of the Type 1 engine with pancake cooling arrangement. Variations of the engine were produced by Volkswagen plants worldwide from 1936 until 2006 for use in Volkswagen's own vehicles, notably the Type 1 (Beetle), Type 2 (bus, transporter), Type 3, and Type 4. Additionally, the engines were widely used in ...
An unsuccessful innovation of the Tang design was the General Motors EMD 16-338 lightweight, compact, high-speed "pancake" engine, rated at 1,000 bhp. Very different from the classic diesel engines that nearly all preceding submarines used, which were laid out with a horizontal crankshaft, this new engine had a vertical crankshaft, and the ...
These engines feature a vertical crankshaft and the cylinders were arranged in an X pattern of four cylinder banks in four cylinder rows. These were the 16-184 and 16-338 "pancake" engines. The 16-388 engine was 13.5 feet (4.1 m) from the base of the generator to the top of the air intake filter and 4 feet (1.2 m) wide.
Vehicle Engine Type MY Engine numbers Technical data 980 Carrera GT M80.01 04 4 994 00501>20000 10 Cyl/5,7L/450 KW 980 Carrera GT M80.01 05 5 905 30501>60000 10 Cyl/5,7L/450 KW 980 Carrera GT M80.01 06 6 906 00501>60000 10 Cyl/5,7L/450 KW Porsche Cayman (987/981/982)
Dry weight. 366 lb (166 kg) [2] : 16. The Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 is a flat-six air-cooled automobile engine developed by General Motors (GM) in the late 1950s for use in the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair of the 1960s. It was used in the entire Corvair line, as well as a wide variety of other applications.
Vought V-173. The Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" was an American experimental test aircraft built as part of the Vought XF5U program during World War II . Both the V-173 and the XF5U featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body (like a pancake flying, hence the nickname) serving as the lifting surface. [1]
Developed from. Vought V-173. The Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" was an experimental U.S. Navy fighter aircraft designed by Charles H. Zimmerman for Vought during World War II. This unorthodox design consisted of a flat, somewhat disc-shaped body (resembling a flying flapjack /pancake, hence its nickname) serving as the lifting surface. [1]