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Aircraft Engine

Aircraft engine have been developing long before the Wright brothers' famous first flight. The 20th century involved innovation and based upon this phenomena in this field; new aircraft engine have been invented, improved upon and sometimes discarded in favor of other designs.

The first aircraft engine was designed in 1913 by Rene Lorin, but never built. After Research on this concept continued through the 1920s and 1930s. On August 27, 1939--4 days before the beginning of WW ii--the world's first jet plane, the Heinkel He-178, took flight for the 1^st time.

Conventional gas turbine aircraft engine, like the turbofan, have been around for years. They power almost all commercial aircrafts and are very reliable. Every time when you board a commercial aircraft, this type of aircraft engine is providing safe and efficient power to get you to your destination. Today we have some of the most efficient, powerful and enduring aircraft engine ever in human history.

A aircraft engine is made up of basically 4 main parts and these are the intake, the compression, the combustion, and the exhaust.

In-line engine:

In this type of aircraft engine has cylinders lined up in one row. Biggest advantage of inline engine is that it allows the aircraft to be designed with a narrow frontal area for low drag.

Rotary engine:

Rotary aircraft engine have all the cylinders in a circle around the crankcase like a radial engine, but the difference in it the crankshaft is bolted to the airframe, and the propeller is bolted to the engine case. The entire engine rotates with the propellers, providing plenty of airflow for cooling regardless of the aircraft's forward speed.

V-type engine

Cylinders in this aircraft engine are arranged in two in-line banks, tilted 30-60 degrees apart from each other. The vast majority of V engines are water-cooled.

Radial engine

This type of aircraft engine has one or more rows of cylinders arranged in a circle around a centrally-located crankcase. Each of them row must have an odd number of cylinders in order to do smooth operation.

Opposed engine

An opposed-type aircraft engine has two banks of cylinders on opposite sides of a centrally located crankcase. This engine is either air cooled or liquid cooled, but the air cooled is not give much better performance then liquid cooled.

Also have many engine’s types. according to that performance and shapes. But the following above is the basic and simple engines.