Clerget 16X
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The Clerget 16X was an experimental French 16-cylinder X engine built in about 1918.
Design
Clerget are best known for their well engineered rotary engines produced from 1911 to the end of World War I in 1918, the first of their type to deliver fuel-air mixture to the cylinder heads by external induction tubes via externally push rod operated inlet valves. They later made a series of static radial aircraft diesel engines.Taylor, 2001, p.279Gunston, 1989, p.41Lumsden, 1994, p.133 The experimental 16X was a departure from all of these; despite contemporary descriptions as a radial engine, it was in more modern terms an X-type, four stroke water-cooled petrol engine, essentially two 90° V-8 cylinder engines, one inverted, coupled to a common output shaft.
Specifications
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|ref=Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War ITaylor, 2001, p.202-3Grey, 1969, pp.1b-145b
|type=16-cylinder X-type piston engine, with four 4-cylinder banks separated by 90°. Single sparking plug on the upper side of each cylinder.
|bore={{convert|130|mm|in|abbr=on|1}}
|stroke={{convert|130|mm|in|abbr=on|1}}
|displacement={{convert|27.6|L|cuin|abbr=on|2}}
|length={{convert|1,306|mm|in|abbr=on|2}}
|diameter={{convert|512|mm|in|abbr=on|2}}
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|weight={{convert|750|lb|kg|abbr=on|1|order=flip}}
|valvetrain=Two overhead valves per cylinder, each operated via a long push-rod worked by one camshaft per cylinder bank. Side inlet and exhaust ports.
|supercharger=
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|fuelsystem=Separate carburettors mounted between upper and between lower cylinder bank, each feeding their pairs of banks. Single sparking plug in upper side of each cylinder.
|fueltype=Petrol
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|coolingsystem=Water, centrifugally pumped.
|power={{convert|313|kW|hp|abbr=on|2}} at 1,600 rpm
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|compression=5:1
|fuelcon=
|specfuelcon= 0.48 L/kWh (0.079 imp gal/hph; 0.095 US gal/hph)
|oilcon=0.038 L/kWh (0.0063 imp gal/hph; 0.0076 US gal/hph))
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References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book |title= World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines|last=Gunston|first=Bill|edition=2| year=1989|publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Wellingborough |isbn=1-85260-163-9|page=41}}
- {{cite book |title= British Piston Aero-engines and their Aircraft|last=Lumsden|first=Alec| year=1994|publisher=Airlife |location=Shrewsbury |isbn=978-1-85310-294-3 |page=133}}
- {{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Michael |title=Jane's fighting aircraft of World War 1 |year=2001|publisher= Jane's Publishing Company|location=London|isbn=978-1-85170-347-0|page=279 }}
- {{cite book|last=Grey|first=C.G.|title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1919|year=1969|publisher=David & Charles (Publishing) Limited|isbn=978-0-7153-4647-1|pages=1b to 145b|edition=Facsimile}}
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