A quick turn of the key is all a pilot usually needs to start the engine and go, but have you ever wondered what’s really going on beyond the fire wall to excite those spark plugs? The aircraft ...
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Before we dive into the specifics of that manual transmission, let’s run through the Magneto’s key stats. The quartet of Webasto-supplied batteries combines for 70 kilowatt-hours of juice, and they’re ...
F. R. HAIGH has recently compared the relative advantages of magneto and coil ignition used for generating the explosions which occur in motor-car engines (Students' Quart. J. Inst. Elec. Eng., Dec.).