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gahorn wrote: Another trivia question: How did Curtiss make a 6-cylinder radial? (Radials have to be odd-numbered.)
Tell that to Pratt & Whitney. They had a lot of even number radials. You just make it a twin row. Don't know how Curtiss did it tho.
Karl
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