Curtiss C-6
{{Short description|Aircraft engine}}
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The Curtiss C-6 is a six-cylinder, water-cooled, inline aircraft engine.{{cite web|title=Joe Gertler's Memaerolbilia|url=http://www.memaerobilia.com/engineselection.asp|accessdate=17 Feb 2011|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104620/http://www.memaerobilia.com/engineselection.asp|url-status=dead}}
Design and development
Variants
;6-cylinder water-cooled in-line engine
Applications
Engines on display
- The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington has a Curtiss C-6A on display.
- The Canada Aviation and Space Museum has a Curtiss C-6A mounted on its Curtiss MF Seagull.{{cite web|title=Curtiss Seagull|url=http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/CurtissSeagull/|accessdate=17 Feb 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110040442/http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircraft/CurtissSeagull/|archive-date=10 January 2011|url-status=dead}}
Specifications (C-6)
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|weight=420 lb
|valvetrain=Two intake and two exhaust valves per cylinder, pushrod-actuated
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|coolingsystem=Water-cooled
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- 160 hp at 1,250 rpm{{cite journal|journal=Flight|title=Curtiss Night Mail Plane|date=1 November 1923}}
- 161 hp at 1,760 rpm{{cite book|title=Airplane engine encyclopedia: an alphabetically arranged compilation of all|url=https://archive.org/details/airplaneenginee00anglgoog|author=Glenn Dale Angle|year=1921 |publisher=Dayton, O., Otterbein Press }}
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|fuelcon=0.5 lb/(hp h)
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|oilcon=0.016 lb/(hp h)
|power/weight=0.38 hp/lb
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