The FAA has issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) for aircraft equipped with certain Continental Aerospace Technologies 360, 470, 520, and 550 series piston engines, effectively grounding them. The ...
The FAA issued Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2023-04-08, superseding Continental's service bulletin, for an estimated 2,176 crankshaft assemblies in certain 360, 470, 520, and 550 series engines ...
Click to open image viewer. During World War I several types of aircraft engines were designed and developed by the Royal Aircraft Factory, a government facility located in Farnborough, England, ...
There are many ways to categorize engines. What differentiates an inline-6 engine from a V6 engine if they have the same number of cylinders? What is the difference between a big block and a small ...
A typical crankshaft is made up of a series of main journals that support the crank in the block and a series of rod journals offset from the crank centerline that are affixed to the connecting rods ...