In only eight years, Cirrus piston aircraft sales have surpassed Beechcraft, Mooney, Piper and Cessna.
This may surprise nonpilots, but cranking up airplane engines--whether piston, turboprop or jet--has always been multistepped.
He installed a horizontal piston that rides along the fork as a steering damper.
"Drawing a mass down within the blade of the piston itself compresses the air, " he said.
This drives the piston back and forth so that it acts as an alternator, generating electricity.
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All it means is that the Piston is not the Steam Box that Valve plans to release.
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The piston then moves back up to sustain the reaction in the upper reactor, and so on.
From the opening bell in Mannheim the 32-year-old Ukrainian had Rahman in trouble with his piston-like left jab.
The Mustang feels like a small business jet, whereas the Eclipse felt like a small twin piston airplane.
Cirrus has delivered nearly 5, 000 piston airplanes over the last decade, and now has a jet under development.
For a liquid piston to work, its surface must be stable in the face of rapidly changing pressures.
Adding to the malaise, the price of piston-engine fuel with low lead content shot skyward stoked by environmental concerns.
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The new company will focus on piston engine, turboprop and military aircraft production.
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It is not yet clear if Piston is the hardware gaming gadget that will bring that project to fruition.
The best-loved single-piston airplane, the Beech Bonanza (disclosure: I own a Bonanza A36) sports a wing developed in the 1930s.
Its piston-engine Bonanza G36 and Baron G58 twin continue to represent the pinnacle of high-performance, six-passenger capability for their class.
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Detroit Piston scout Will Robinson, who found future All-Stars Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman when they were diamonds in the rough.
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Mr. McPheeters's weekend ended early, when he busted a piston on Saturday, sending his snowmobile to the bottom of the lake.
EcoMotors and Achates are developing two-stroke, opposed piston diesel engines while Pinnacle is working on a four-stroke opposed piston gasoline engine.
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Large flaps move out and down, placing the jet on a landing path at speeds similar to those of piston prop jobs.
Some feature pistons with a second piston moving in the first one.
Two are small businesses replacing their aging turboprops or twin-engine piston planes.
To prevent this, milk is forced under extreme pressure and at high velocity to pass through tiny passages by a piston pump.
Codenamed "Piston", the prototype, developed by Xi3 Corporation and funded by Valve, was unveiled at the CES trade show in Las Vegas.
Conventional four-stroke engines produce power by moving a piston up and down using rapid explosions of fuel and air in a cylindrical chamber.
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Corporate jets, as well as corporate turboprops and corporate piston-powered airplanes provide the transportation that is so essential to businesses, large and small.
In most spark ignition engines, a thermodynamic cycle occurs when the piston completes four strokes within the cylinder, and the crankshaft completes two revolutions.
Incoming cooler ambient air from the other end of the piston causes the helium to contract and move the piston to generate AC power.
The Cirrus piston engine, made by Teledyne Continental, is very reliable.
But it suffers from a fatal flaw, which is that the tips of the rotating piston on which the device relies tend to become worn.
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