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Old 01-27-2012, 03:21 AM
WTE_Galway WTE_Galway is offline
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Originally Posted by IceFire View Post
All of the ones on the chart with a slightly better tolerance to dealing with heat are .... equipped with radial engines. Its conventional wisdom that radials are more robust and I guess that's what is going on here as well. So they appear to all have a slightly different profile to heat resistance from the in-line engines.
Forget in-line versus radial.

Think air-cooled versus liquid-cooled.