"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 22/03/14 14:44, wrote:


Someone once told me that a water-cooled aircraft engine was about as
sensible as an air-cooled submarine engine ;-)

Nevertheless most of them were.

VERY few really fast piston engined aircraft had radials.

And the big ones with multiple banks all had cooling issues


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fw190_F-8