The Walter Mars I was a nine-cylinder, air-cooled,
radial engine
The radial engine is a reciprocating engine, reciprocating type internal combustion engine, internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinder (engine), cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. ...
for aircraft use built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s.
Design and development
The Mars I was the largest
capacity design of a series of three similar radial engines developed by the Walter company. Common
cylinders
A cylinder () has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base.
A cylinder may also be defined as an infinite ...
were used for the five-cylinder
Walter Vega and the seven-cylinder
Walter Venus
The Walter Venus was a seven-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft use, built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s.
Applications
* Aero A.34
* ANBO V
* Savoia-Marchetti S.56A
Specifications
See also
References
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, the Mars I being a nine-cylinder engine.
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Applications
* ANBO III
* Breda Ba.15
* DAR 4
* DAR 6
* Fizir FN
* Focke-Wulf A 33
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The Letov Š-32 was an airliner produced in small numbers in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It was a trimotor monoplane with a high, cantilever wing, and was designed to meet a requirement by ČSA for a machine to service a night ro ...
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Specifications
See also
References
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Mars I
1920s aircraft piston engines
Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines